From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 14:04:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28968 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:04:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28906 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id OAA29289; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:03:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:03:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Jeremy Shaffner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File Time/Date/Version/Etc Stamping In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.) > > >-===================================================================- >Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet >Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium >jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider >support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com >-===================================================================- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message