Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:25:36 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Base system config file headers... Message-ID: <47013BA0.4060107@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <64c038660710011046h45ebfa84jd4a1eb12eca957c3@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038660710011046h45ebfa84jd4a1eb12eca957c3@mail.gmail.com>
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Modulok wrote: > In the header of many of the base system's config files there are > lines similar to this: > > "# $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.32.2.1 2006/03/06 22:23:10 rwatson Exp $" > > Do these have any useful purpose, other than as a human-readable > comment? Some kind of versioning or update information to be processed > by some automated tool of some sort? mergemaster will pay attention to these and can do a better job of automatically updating config files which have not been hand-editted. > Basically I just want to know if I can safely delete them in any config files I tweak. You can safely delete them, but it's probably not worth doing unless you are significantly re-writing the config file. -- -Chuck
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