Is this a new file being aded to cvs? If so, simply add it with the -ko option to turn off all keyword substitution for the file. You can't turn off a just specific keyword. If you mean you want to turn it off for just one commit, I don't think you can do that...or if you can, I have no idea how! Here's a link to the relavent page in the cvs manual. http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_12.html#SEC101 Dave On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 00:24, Bob Tanner wrote: > I have a patch in cvs, part of the patch looks like this: > > -# $Id: genbasedir,v 1.20 2001/11/30 20:40:27 kojima Exp $ > +# $Id: genbasedir,v 1.21 2001/12/12 14:50:43 kojima Exp $ > > The problem is when I commit the patch to cvs the $Id$ tag gets expanded thus > rendering the patch invalid. > > Anyway to make cvs not expand the $Id$ tag? >