From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 14:24:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA21096 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 14:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper119244.iafrica.com [196.7.119.244]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21083 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 14:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00727; Fri, 17 May 1996 23:22:49 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199605172122.XAA00727@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: using rcs with `what' To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 23:22:47 +0200 (SAT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9605172032.AA07198@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at May 17, 96 04:32:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < said: > > > Garrett Wollman wrote: > > [...] > >> We probably should not even be shipping `what'; there are too many > >> interrogatives used already. > > > How do you propose people find sccsid's without it? > > Why would you want to fine sccsids when you haven't got SCCS? Well, sccsid '@(#)' convention can be useful if you simply want to embed any comment-style information in a file. For example, I remember one coding standards stylesheet used to require : # @(#) # Author: , [...] for shell scripts. Admittedly, you can 'grep' for that, but with 'what' you don't have to worry about file type. One point is: any particular version control system is a development tool and is likely to be unavailable at an end-user site. But it is easy enough to say on the phone, "Run 'what' and tell me what version of the 'foo' library the program's using." It's not a big thing, either way, but 'what' probably has its niche. -- Robert Nordier