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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:01:06 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: $Id$/$FreeBSD$
References: <199804132015.PAA06557@cerebus.nectar.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199804132015.PAA06557@cerebus.nectar.com>; from Jacques Vidrine on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 03:15:46PM -0500
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On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 03:15:46PM -0500, Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> 
> Would anyone care to share the history of these two revision logs
> found in many (all?) of the FreeBSD source files?  

Attempt at introducing $FreeBSD$ instead of $Id$, to avoid Id-smashing
problems (where you put it in another repository, and *boom* - your Id
is gone.)

Unfortunately, some of our infrastructure was lacking.

I think there will be a re-introduction of $FreeBSD$ in the relatively
near future.

Eivind.


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