On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 17:40, Stephen Lau wrote:
> I prefer the $Id$ syntax, since it's also supported under Subversion.
Existing practice among the *BSD's is to define *specific* $Keyword$
(such as $NetBSD$/$OpenBSD$/$FreeBSD$) recognized only by the master
repository so that folks checking copies of the files into their own SCM
system don't lose the original.
I suspect we may need to put something like: @(#)$Id$ so as to not
confuse old versions of what(1).
> Will /usr/ccs/bin/what, mcs, showrev, and similar tools be updated to
> search for $Id.*$ instead of @(#) ?
There's already a tool (part of RCS) to search for $Keyword$ in files:
"ident".
Perhaps more problematic: a number of kernel modules embed keywords like
%I% in literal strings which become admin-visible, especially in
"modstat" output.
What do you propose to do about this?
- Bill
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