From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 7 02:49:56 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA12033 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:49:56 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA12026 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:49:54 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA01818 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:49:59 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506070949.CAA01818@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: CVS munging RCS Id's (was Re: sup is fetching whole src tree) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:49:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199506070617.IAA09581@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 7, 95 08:17:13 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1001 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. 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