From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 7 02:52:39 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA12082 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:52:39 -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 CAA12075 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:52:36 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA01867; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:52:40 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506070952.CAA01867@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: CVS munging RCS Id's (was Re: sup is fetching whole src tree) To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199506070728.AAA00135@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jun 7, 95 00:28:36 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: 996 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. > > 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. Agreed. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD