RCS tags in ada source files

David O'Brien obrien@FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 13 16:23:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:56:00PM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Someone suggested to me that there is a CVS patch to support project
> specific keywords like BSDId or GCCId.  I think the FreeBSD folks
> use it.  This lets you share source between projects and each repository
> has its own special Id marker. 

Yes.  We have $FreeBSD$.  We also store the $FreeBSD$'s unexpanded in the
,v files.  The CVS client expands and fills them in during
checkout/update.

I believe the way FreeBSD does things also removes the branch merge
issue raised here.



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