source code macros

[nawglan]

In CVS, we could add this in the code: “$Id: $” and it would automatically timestamp the code.  This was very helpful with our header comment blocks.  Can Plastic SCM do something similar?

 

Thanks.

[calbzam]

Hi,

As far as I know these macro are similar that Plastic SCM attributes:

http://www.plasticscm.com/features/user-defined-attributes.aspx

 

Regards,

Carlos

[nawglan]

Kinda, except, in cvs it actually modifies the file so that if you export that file it has the expanded string.

 

eg:

  The following is a commonly used file header:

#
# Author   : Name <email@address>
# Subject  : Title of Documentation
# Revision : $Id$
#

When exported from CVS, the above file header will expand out to something like:

 

#
#  Author   : Name  <email@address>
#  Subject  : Title of Documentation
#  Revision : $Id: File2.java,v 1.3 2004/06/02 17:30:42 JHunter Exp $
#

 

So, if the client reports a bug on the code, they can also tell us what revision of the file they have.  This helps us identify a starting point to see where the bug was introduced.

 

The client doesn't have Plastic SCM installed, so attributes and doing queries doesn't help.

[nawglan]

For those that come later, the following post helped and got me on the right track:

 

http://www.plasticscm.net/index.php?/topic/385-rcs-style-keywords/

 

I'll post the code I write for this as a reply when it's completed.

 

--

Dez.

[calbzam]

Thank you @nawglan!!

 

Regards,

Carlos