Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:49:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS munging RCS Id's (was Re: sup is fetching whole src tree) Message-ID: <199506070949.CAA01818@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199506070617.IAA09581@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 7, 95 08:17:13 am
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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. It can still be done, since it was turned on when I did the initial import the *original* RCS id strings are actually in the repository for all the *original* import bits. It would probably take me a good long weekend to reserect the other ID values that have been smashed. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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