RE: How do I escape a subversion keyword?

> I'm working on some software (spamassassin) that uses the
> subversion
> keyword "$LastChangedDate$". In the same file that it's used, I
> want that
> string to appear unmodified - not expanded by subversion, exactly
> as
> "$LastChangedDate$" instead of something like "$LastChangedDate:
> 2010-03-30
> 08:02:18 -0400 (Tue, 30 Mar 2010) $"
>
> Because I want to check for a case where svn keywords aren't
> getting
> expanded.
>
> Something like (perl):
>
> if ('$LastChangedDate$' eq '$LastChangedDate$')
>
> But with one of them getting expanded, and the other not.
>
> I think it would work to do something like:
>
> if ('$LastChangedDate$' eq '$LastChan'.'gedDate$')
>
> But I'd prefer to escape the keyword instead.
>
> Maybe something like \$LastChangedDate$ ?

I'm confused about what you are asking. Are you saying you don't want subversion to expand the keywords? If so, then remove them from the svn:keywords property. Any keywords not in the property are not expanded.

BOb
Received on 2011-05-27 19:08:07 CEST