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From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
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Subject: Re: $Id$/$FreeBSD$ 
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Thanks for all answers.  I was mostly curious about the reason for
backing out.  Thanks.

Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>

On 14 April 1998 at 1:01, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> wrote:
> 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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