Migrating From UNIX SCCS

[Joe Masters]

Yes, it's called keywords. $Header: $ is similar to what you have
mentioned, and there are others:

$Archive: $
$Author: $
$Date: $
$History: $
$Log: $

and more.

Joe

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 13:42:54 -0000, "Mr T" <NOS...@nospam.com> wrote:

>If you set it up - SCCS (the Unix source control system) embeds a string in
>all C/C++ files. Ours looks like this:
>
> static char _sccs_id_module_c_[] = "@(#)XXX: module.c 1.5
>01/02/22";
>
>You can configure SCCS to update the string with revision information. This
>means that our applications can tell us what versions of what source files
>they were built from.
>
>We want to move our source control to VSS.
>
>Question: Does VSS have a similar mechanism to SCCS 'what strings'?
>
>