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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2001 11:46:29 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include stddef.h
Message-ID:  <20010528114629.I7406@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010526220826.7CE6238CB@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:08:26PM -0700
References:  <20010525023459.E7406@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010526220826.7CE6238CB@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:08:26PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> commit had it as "$FreeBSD$" then you get this.  The tags are expanded
> on *checkout*, not checkin.  If you have: "$FreeBSD: is excellent $"

Yup.  Exactly what I was trying to point out.

> I have contemplated in the past making the commit checkin scripts change
> any expanded $FreeBSD: foo $ tags into plain $FreeBSD$ so that it doesn't
> keep occupying rcs delta space, but I was concerned about potential
> interactions with remote commits and the 'touched but not actually
> modified' checking.  It would be worth experimenting with I think.  It is
> silly that we have +1 -1 on most commits solely because of the header
> changes.

Agreed.  It would be nice if the commit scripts could check for expanded
tags.  Only problem is that it may interfere (in the rare case) with a
tag that really is supposed to be expanded.

-- 
wca

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