Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:03:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File Time/Date/Version/Etc Stamping Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980724140121.26800B-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980724114323.20247B-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
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This is done by RCS. From "man rcsintro":
Automatic Identification
RCS can put special strings for identification into your
source and object code. To obtain such identification,
place the marker
$Id$
into your text, for instance inside a comment. RCS will
replace this marker with a string of the form
$Id: filename revision date time author state
-- Yan
Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark."
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Jeremy Shaffner wrote:
>
>I always see lines like:
>
>$Id: sysconfig,v 1.52.2.3 1997/01/09 02:42:45 alex Exp $
>
>In various config files and such. Are these lines generated by any
>stamping tool or are they just manually entered?
>
>Please CC: as I'm no longer on the list (Got to be too much mail.)
>
>
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