Preserving CVS $Header$ keyword while converting to Mercurial

[Jan Vrany]

 > Jan Vrany wrote, On 01/12/2013 02:28 PM:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to switch from CVS/SVN combination to Mercurial.
>> For some time, possibly quite long, there will be a living CVS
>> repository (not all individuals/companies are wiling to switch now
>> to an unknown/unproven technology while the current one
>> "just works" :-)
>>
>> The idea is to keep default branch intact and regularly fetch changes
>> from CVS by running hg convert and do all development in a different
>> branch(es).
>>
>> To be able to track changes, I would need to preserve expanded
>> $Header$ keywords in files so I new from which CVS revision the file
>> is derived. Is that possible with hg convert? If not, what would be
>> the best approach to do it? I don't mind a bit of python coding.
>
> That is not something 'hg convert' cares about, so I guess it just get
> passed through as you want. Give it a try.
>

It does not. It leaves $Header$ unexpanded. See bottom of

https://swing.fit.cvut.cz/hg/stx.libbasic/file/bb6ff651e27e/ProjectDefinition.st

Jan