From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 2 18:32:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076CC1567C for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:32:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from street@iname.com) Received: from mired.eh.local ([24.64.136.188]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <19990903013120.BMZK22922.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@mired.eh.local>; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:31:20 -0700 Received: (from kws@localhost) by mired.eh.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA46985; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:31:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kws) To: "Michael W. Akers" Cc: "'FreeBSD'" Subject: Re: Off the wall question ... References: <01BEF561.DD5D1390@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com> From: Kevin Street Date: 02 Sep 1999 21:31:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Michael W. Akers"'s message of "Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:40:27 -0700" Message-ID: <87zoz4ixw8.fsf@mired.eh.local> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Michael W. Akers" writes: > 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? No. It's just an informational line inserted by the CVS package when files are checked in and out of the CVS repository (which is where all the FreeBSD source is stored.) It's useful to see what version of a source file or script you're working with. Try: ident /bin/ls and you'll see that it also can be used to see what source file versions were used in building an executable. > What documentation covers this? man cvs info cvs -- Kevin Street street@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message