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From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@ark.cris.net>
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hi,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:55:38AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:

> > > > Ummm...what about image files (.scr, etc.)?
> 
> > > Binary files should always be uuencoded so that the resulting files can
> > > be given a leading line that contains $FreeBSD$ and will be ignored.
> 
> > If you do have any files that shouldn't have $FreeBSD$ in them that can
> > be specified in CVSROOT/exclude.
> 
> There's 58 screenshot files (in the handbook's install guide) and about
> 25 eps files in the doc/ tree.  I'd rather permit these to remain "as
> is" rather than add a bunch of infrastructure to deal with uudecoding, 
> plus all the conversions in the repository.
> 
> (OK, it's not my decision, but you get the idea.....)

Having $FreeBSD$ in all text files (sgml, etc) is quite useful for
translation teams to track changes. I think we need to have it enabled,
but add wildcards for all kinds of images and binary files to 'exclude'
list.


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