From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 1 18:25:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3911916A468 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:25:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1703913C48E for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:25:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3545DB2; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:25:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fviCV+ZnJMbl; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:25:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.249] (pool-71-190-65-187.nycmny.east.verizon.net [71.190.65.187]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 836D95C87; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:25:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <47013BA0.4060107@mac.com> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:25:36 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Modulok References: <64c038660710011046h45ebfa84jd4a1eb12eca957c3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <64c038660710011046h45ebfa84jd4a1eb12eca957c3@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Base system config file headers... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:25:54 -0000 Modulok wrote: > In the header of many of the base system's config files there are > lines similar to this: > > "# $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.32.2.1 2006/03/06 22:23:10 rwatson Exp $" > > Do these have any useful purpose, other than as a human-readable > comment? Some kind of versioning or update information to be processed > by some automated tool of some sort? mergemaster will pay attention to these and can do a better job of automatically updating config files which have not been hand-editted. > Basically I just want to know if I can safely delete them in any config files I tweak. You can safely delete them, but it's probably not worth doing unless you are significantly re-writing the config file. -- -Chuck