From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 7 00:16:06 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA04917 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 00:16:06 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA04857 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 00:15:47 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA21842; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 09:15:33 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA27936 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 09:15:32 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA09581 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 08:17:13 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506070617.IAA09581@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: CVS munging RCS Id's (was Re: sup is fetching whole src tree) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 08:17:13 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) In-Reply-To: <199506062224.QAA23078@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jun 6, 95 04:24:34 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 683 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)