Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 00:28:36 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: CVS munging RCS Id's (was Re: sup is fetching whole src tree) Message-ID: <199506070728.AAA00135@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 95 08:17:13 %2B0200." <199506070617.IAA09581@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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. I'll only agree to changing to this if the entire source tree is changed at the same time. Having a mixture of $Id$/$FreeBSD$ would be a *very* ugly mess. This shouldn't be difficult to accomplish with a simple sed script or something. -DG
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