Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 14:21:24 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp>, committers <committers@FreeBSD.ORG>, man-jp-core@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: $Id$ tag in manpage Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901041414490.335-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19990104181024.B2552@follo.net>
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 11:36:53PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote: > > (as a member of Japanese Manual Translation Project) > > > > We are planning to start translation section 6 and 7 of manpages in > > -current. But we found that many manpages don't have $Id$ tags in their > > sources. If it is possible to add $Id$ tags into manpage sources in > > freefall repository, it makes more easier our jobs for tracking latest > > sources. > > Is there any special reason that many manpage sources do not include > > $Id$ tags? If not, I'll patch them like this. > > There is a special reason: A lot of people has screwed up when > committing manpages. > > Just add the $Id$ tags - they are supposed to be there. One point, I think another reason for the lack of man page $Id$ tags is because they are *not* embedded in the familiar /* */ C style comments, the troff comment introducer is .\" (at the start of a line, and the rest of the line becomes a comment). If everyone knew the comment introducer, or it was readily at hand, I think there'd be more $Id$ tags on man pages. Just to make it clear, that was dot, backslash, doublequote. BTW, this isn't like the # comment introducer for shell scripts, this can't come in the middle of the line. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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