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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:52:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: CVS munging RCS Id's (was Re: sup is fetching whole src tree)
Message-ID:  <199506070952.CAA01867@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506070728.AAA00135@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jun 7, 95 00:28:36 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.
> 
>    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



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