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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 09:16:54 -0700
From:      "William R. Somsky" <wrsomsky@halcyon.com>
To:        Kevin Street <street@iname.com>
Cc:        "William R. Somsky" <wrsomsky@halcyon.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: $FreeBSD tag confusion
Message-ID:  <19990901091654.A3227@gramarye.halcyon.com>
In-Reply-To: <87u2peixsy.fsf@mired.eh.local>; from Kevin Street on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:08:45AM -0400
References:  <14282.2563.303797.40529@mired.eh.local> <XFMail.990829213751.jdp@polstra.com> <19990901004615.A1721@gramarye.halcyon.com> <87u2peixsy.fsf@mired.eh.local>

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On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:08:45AM -0400, Kevin Street wrote:
> "William R. Somsky" <wrsomsky@halcyon.com> writes:
> 
> > Hmm... but what about if you're cvsup-ing the sources?
> > I'm cvsup-ing stable, not current, (cvsup file included below)
> > and $FreeBSD appears all over the place unexpanded.  Is this
> > the way it's supposed to be?  Isn't cvsup supposed to be
> > (effectively) doing a "check-out"?  Or am I just confused?
> 
> 
> > #] grep src/bin/echo bin/echo/echo.[1c]
> > bin/echo/echo.1:.\" $FreeBSD: src/bin/echo/echo.1,v 1.6.2.2 1999/08/29 14:12:19 peter Exp $
> > bin/echo/echo.c:  "$FreeBSD: src/bin/echo/echo.c,v 1.7.2.1 1999/08/29 14:12:20 peter Exp $";
> 
> 
> > So... no expansion of $FreeBSD that I can see here...
> 
> Those are the expanded tags.  When I said I had unexpanded tags, I
> meant that I was seeing just:
>  "$FreeBSD$"
> instead of:
>  "$FreeBSD: <filename> <version> <timestamp> <committer> <status> $"

Oh, ok, so I _was_ confused.  Thanks!

Occupational hazard of being a physicist: I try to understand
things -- and that's when you find out what you _don't_ know. :-)

________________________________________________________________________
William R. Somsky                                   wrsomsky@halcyon.com
Physicist, Baritone, Guitarist           http://www.halcyon.com/wrsomsky


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