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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 1995 10:25:54 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs strings 
Message-ID:  <199507201725.KAA06743@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 95 01:59:37 %2B0200." <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.

   This definately tops my "most silly things said" list. Of course, I didn't
make such a gratuitous change. The identifier ($Id$, $Log$, etc...) keywords
are automatically removed as part of the cvs export operation, which is how
the final source tree is created.

-DG



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