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This command is a variant of checkout; use it
when you want a copy of the source for module without
the CVS administrative directories. For example, you
might use export to prepare source for shipment
off-site. This command requires that you specify a
date or tag (with `-D' or `-r'), so that you
can count on reproducing the source you ship to others.
The keyword substitution option `-kv' is always set when
export is used. This causes any RCS keywords to be
expanded such that an import done at some other site
will not lose the keyword revision information. There
is no way to override this. Note that this breaks the
ident command (which is part of the RCS
suite--see ident(1)) which looks for RCS keyword
strings. If you want to be able to use ident
you must use checkout instead.
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