Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 08:17:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: CVS munging RCS Id's (was Re: sup is fetching whole src tree) Message-ID: <199506070617.IAA09581@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199506062224.QAA23078@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jun 6, 95 04:24:34 pm
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As Nate Williams wrote: [$FreeBSD$ RCS keyword] > Both NetBSD and the XFree86 folks do this now, and while I admit it's a > good idea it'd be a bit more difficult to do at this stage of the game > than when we first did the 2.0 CVS tree. Rod's opinion didn't seem to be too pessimistic that it can still be done. It's not only a Good Thing (TM), we do _need_ it. E.g., it would eliminate PR # gnu/449 (perl's $] variable is broken), and i'm sure there's other not-so-obvious imported software wher we also broke the original RCS ids. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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