Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:16:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: what $Id is... (was Re: Off the wall question ...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909021711050.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <01BEF561.DD5D1390@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Michael W. Akers wrote: > Got a question for 'ya all, > In just about every script that I open in FreeBSD I see > the following line: > > (This one from /etc/csh.cshrc) > # $Id: csh.cshrc,v 1.2 1998/09/02 01:34:55 brian Exp $ > > Is this required? > What generates it? > What documentation covers this? > The FreeBSD Project uses cvs (man cvs) to track changes to the source code. cvs can expand certain "tags" into things such as dates, and id information that you see. It's particularly useful: Dude: "Hey Dave, y'know that the mount program barfs when X happens.?" Dave: "Dude, it's fixed in mount.c revision 1.15, what revision are you at?" Dude: "oh, my file is version 1.13, i'll upgrade..." for further references check out: man cvs http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#cvs http://www.cyclic.com/ enjoy, -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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