Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 01:59:37 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: cvs strings Message-ID: <199507192359.BAA07660@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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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
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