discuss: is revhistory _that_ needed?
Subject:
Re: is revhistory _that_ needed?
From:
"John R. Daily" ####@####.####
Date:
29 Nov 2003 23:42:21 -0000
Message-Id: <200311292342.hATNgJ5H019562@ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com>
At (time_t)758935345 Stephen Darlington wrote:
> I stopped using CVS tags when I started getting questions about
> versions of my HOWTO that I'd never released publicly. Turns out a
> number of distributions put the HOWTO's under their own source control
> which over-wrote my version number.
It is possible for the LDP to define replacement CVS tags like
$LDP$ in place of $Id$ to prevent (or at least alleviate) this
problem.
I'm not sure how it's done (Google is failing me; a rarity) but I
can find out next week.
-John
