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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com, imp@rover.village.org
Subject: Re: Versioning bsd.port.mk
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>2) FreeBSD checks in a version date that matches today each time
>bsd.port.mk is checked in.

If I understand you correctly, that's exactly what my proposal does --
it uses the $Date:$ RCS keyword, which is expanded on checkout to the
date/time that the file was checked in.

  Bill