Re: bind2netbsd [was Re: CVS commit: basesrc]

[cgd%netbsd.org@localhost (Chris G. Demetriou)]

Hubert Feyrer <feyrer%rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de@localhost> writes:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> > > We need to strip the $'s around the Id: and do some other small changes.
> > I'm not a CVS wizard - is there a way on import to say "don't touch
> > $Id$, but everything else is ok"?  FWIW, it expanded some of your
> > comment "$NetBSD$" which I don't think was the plan :)
> 
> I'm not a CVS wizard either, but AFAIK, the $Id$ strings are inserted when
> checking things out, not in. You can tell CVS (RCS...) to not expand
> keywords (something like cvs admin -kkv or so), but that won't expand you
> $NetBSD$ either. 

Further, allowing third party $Id$'s in our sources which will be
expanded by RCS make life harder for people who want to take NetBSD
sources, import them into a local repository, modify them, and
eventually contribute back changes.


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