Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 07:45:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: robg <robg.list@gmail.com> Subject: Re: "$Id: index.html,v 1.46 2004/08/19 23:15:05 grog Exp $" ? Message-ID: <20041002221523.GQ460@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <415E5305.9050804@nbritton.org> References: <5c389d3b041001211056012a3f@mail.gmail.com> <415E5305.9050804@nbritton.org>
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--MM5RgFPKyuP3gDcV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 2 October 2004 at 2:04:37 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: Please don't answer these questions on -newbies. -questions is the correct mailing list. I answered there and blind copied this list, but it seems that blind copying is no longer allowed, so I suppose nobody saw it. > robg wrote: > >> Hi: >> >> I see this at the end of a lot of documents: >> >> $Id: index.html,v 1.46 2004/08/19 23:15:05 grog Exp $ >> >> or something similar. How is that done? Is it done from a text >> editor that just appends it by itself? How would I go about doign it? > > It's the check-in tag that is automaticly appended to a document when it > is checked into a version management system. > > Check out subversion (SVN) if you want to get into version > management, Check out Subversion if you want to get into a really complicated way of version control. It requires significant setup, and it's based on a number of other packages. > also FreeBSD has it's own built-in version management system called > RCS. RCS isn't FreeBSD specific. It's universal, and it also doesn't need any setup (beyond optionally creating a directory RCS). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --MM5RgFPKyuP3gDcV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBXyh7IubykFB6QiMRArzQAKCv8wFraZP8FUXbQhRO/NjGv9pbhwCfVVMX ilgU3nF5Zqe8GZjSqIpq22Y= =SLNz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MM5RgFPKyuP3gDcV--
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