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 Keyword substitution
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    As long as you edit source files inside a working directory you can
 always find out the state of your files via `cvs status' and `cvs log'.
 But as soon as you export the files from your development environment
 it becomes harder to identify which revisions they are.
 
    CVS can use a mechanism known as "keyword substitution" (or "keyword
 expansion") to help identifying the files.  Embedded strings of the form
 `$KEYWORD$' and `$KEYWORD:...$' in a file are replaced with strings of
 the form `$KEYWORD:VALUE$' whenever you obtain a new revision of the
 file.
 

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* Keyword list                Keywords
* Using keywords              Using keywords
* Avoiding substitution       Avoiding substitution
* Substitution modes          Substitution modes
* Log keyword                 Problems with the $Log$ keyword.
 

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