Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 13:53:01 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header Message-ID: <CANCZdfo59R2Gd%2B-KB1=WvPY-RxR4h4U9ikAECHOnCddqh3VVRw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2bd37d63-1806-b621-a32b-954c912bd16b@FreeBSD.org> References: <20210520183705.3673dfb2@bsd64.grem.de> <2bd37d63-1806-b621-a32b-954c912bd16b@FreeBSD.org>
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--0000000000003c16a505c43264d3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:26 PM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 5/20/21 9:37 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After a binary update using freebsd-update, all files in /etc contain > > "empty" VCS Id headers, e.g., > > > > $ head /etc/nsswitch.conf > > # > > # nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file > > # $FreeBSD$ > > # > > group: compat > > group_compat: nis > > hosts: files dns > > netgroup: compat > > networks: files > > passwd: compat > > > > After migrating to git, I would've expected those to contain something > > else or disappear completely. Is this expected and are there any plans > > to remove them completely? > > I believe we might eventually remove them in the future, but doing so > right now would introduce a lot of churn and the conversion to git > had enough other churn going on. > We'd planned on not removing things that might be merged to stable/12 since those releases (12.3 only I think) will be built out of svn. We'll likely start to remove things more widely as the stable/12 branch reaches EOL and after. Warner --0000000000003c16a505c43264d3--
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