RCS tags in ada source files

[Fergus Henderson]

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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