Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:18:11 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possibly malformed date in several manual pages Message-ID: <20210108131811.357f173c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20210108113505.GA41405@freebsd.org> References: <20210107080827.GA10295@freebsd.org> <20210108113505.GA41405@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 11:35:05 +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > "$Date:" and "$" in the vacation-example of course aren't pretty to have in a > manual page, but I crosschecked with Linux and here those terms are also > displayed at the end of the according manual page. > > One might could take care of this during the installation process of the manual > pages, but it's probably not worth the hassle. Just a question: It looks like "$Date: <something> $" is expanded from the $Date$ header known in CVS (among others). With the transition to SVN and now to Git, wouldn't those be subject to being converted into Git's own human-readable headers, making the date information known to the version control system, or maybe "overwriting" them with its own timestamp? Or are they kept "as is" when importing sources from other version control systems (like RCS, CVS, SVN)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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