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cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Subject: Re: CVS munging RCS Id's (was Re: sup is fetching whole src tree) 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 00:28:36 -0700
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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