[ On Saturday, April 13, 2002 at 16:15:13 (-0400), gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Lying about the author (and so).
>
> > How many times do I have to spell it out?
> >
> > "cvs co -ko vendor-module"
>
> Well, that's all well and good as long as you remember, but I get
> the feeling not all of the users of a given repository can be relied
> upon to do it all the time.
What, exactly, do you mean by "as long as you remember"!?!?!?!
You're using CVS, are you not? Did you not RTFM? You'd bloody well
better remember or it's "Too Bad For YOU!"!!!!
> (At the same time, not all of the users of a given repository care
> about this information, so as long as their commits don't destroy
> it, it probably doesn't really matter.)
Commits from working directories will "destroy" this information.
That's why you _REALLY_ want your vendor to create releases that no
longer contain recognisable (to RCS/CVS) keywords (or minimally to
_ONLY_ use keywords that common pulic versions of RCS/CVS don't
recognise).
--
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