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Re: RCS tags in ada source files
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: mark at codesourcery dot com, obrien at FreeBSD dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:27:28 +1100
- Subject: Re: RCS tags in ada source files
- References: <20020314035612.0AB73F28BD@nile.gnat.com>
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.
> >>
>
> That does seem a loss.
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'.
We've been doing this with the Mercury distribution for quite some time.
I've been very happy with this approach.
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