From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 4: 5:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cmr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net (cmr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net [198.5.241.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A0437B416 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 04:05:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from csserve0.corp.us.uu.net by cmr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: csserve0.corp.us.uu.net [153.39.88.140]) id QQmfzs03074; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:05:13 GMT Received: from haiti.corp.us.uu.net by csserve0.corp.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: localhost [127.0.0.1]) id QQmfzs26384; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:05:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jamgill@localhost) by haiti.corp.us.uu.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2DC5A905653; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:05:11 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: haiti.corp.us.uu.net: jamgill owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:05:10 -0500 (EST) From: "jamgill@uu.net" X-Sender: jamgill@haiti.corp.us.uu.net To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: "J.S." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is this? In-Reply-To: <20020313052125.7283EBB35@i8k.babbleon.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG RCS does indeed do this. Michael Lucas has a good article in Big Scary Daemons that will introduce you to the concept and practice of revision control: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/10/19/Big_Scary_Daemons.html HTH, --gill On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > On Tuesday 12 March 2002 03:07 pm, J.S. wrote: > | $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/mailer.conf,v 1.2 1999/12/29 18:24:06 peter Exp $ > | > | -- Always wondered what that was and how to include it in my own textfiles. > > Put $id$ > > into a file that is checked into cvs (I've pretty sure that rcs does this, > too) and it will get automatically expanded into the above sort of form for > you when you commit changes. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --gill | Tatu Ylonen, SSH 1.2.12 README: "Beware that the most effective | way for someone to decrypt your data may be with a rubber hose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message