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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 01:59:37 +0200
From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Subject: cvs strings 
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I had hoped to be able to prune down my current src tree
by establishing per file symbolic links to the new CD-ROM
(as I've done on previous FreeBSD CDs)

This time round, many files are just subtly different enough
to defeat my automatic compare & delete tool, here is a typical example:
	diff -c bin/csh/char.c /pub/cd/src/bin/csh/char.c
	*** bin/csh/char.c      Wed May  3 15:38:54 1995
	--- /cd/src/bin/csh/char.c  Fri Sep 23 14:53:46 1994
	***************
	*** 30,36 ****
	!  *    $Id: char.c,v 1.2 1994/09/24 02:53:46 davidg Exp $
	--- 30,36 ----
	!  *    char.c,v 1.2 1994/09/24 02:53:46 davidg Exp

These changes seem most unfortunate.
Can we avoid such slight alterations next time round ?
It seems wasteful on disc space, sup & ctm bandwidth,
to put a different stamp on a file that has identical contents.

BTW This is a general CVS policy question with no particular reference
to davidg, who I guess just happened to be in this example

Those tiny strings changes "$Id: " & " $" convey no extra information to me,
but prevent people with CD-ROMS saving space.

Julian S