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Re: RCS tags in ada source files
- From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
- To: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Cc: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>, mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 23:15:27 -0800
- Subject: Re: RCS tags in ada source files
- Organization: The NUXI BSD group
- References: <20020314035612.0AB73F28BD@nile.gnat.com> <20020314172728.A29938@hg.cs.mu.oz.au>
- Reply-to: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:27:28PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 13-Mar-2002, Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> > <<*Quite* a shame. Often I have wanted to know what revision (from the FSF
> > repo) of a GCC or Binutils file I have.
>
> So ship the `CVS' directories in the source distribution.
> That keeps the revision numbers present, but in a place where
> they don't cause problems for `diff' or `cvs diff'.
You might be surprised by the number of people that import GCC/Binutils
bits into their own CVS repositories. *BSD's, Cygnus, Wind River, many
other embedded companies, etc.. It would not be easy to have the FSF
CVS/ laying around. Certainly much more a PITA than just having SCM ID's
in the source itself. They serve a purpose -- I am surprised that many
people do know believe this.