From owner-cvs-all Tue Nov 10 16:01:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08235 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08047 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:01:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18622; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:57:49 GMT (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19981110235748.14047@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:57:48 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: $FreeBSD$? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi folks, As I plough my way through the CVS log messages on my docs merge, I keep seeing this log entry; 1.30 Tue Jan 14 6:26:20 1997 UTC by jkh Diffs to 1.29 Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$ This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise. This is then (almost always) immediately followed by; 1.34 Sat Feb 22 12:58:27 1997 UTC by peter Diffs to 1.33 Revert $FreeBSD$ back to $Id$ I've been wondering about this for a while. What's the story here? If the answer is "Oops, we screwed up, we'd really not talk about it, there's nothing to see here, move along quickly" feel free to let me know by private mail rather than to the list. N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message