Re: CVS dir in package source

[Michael Beattie <mjb@debian.org>]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:22:52PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote:
> > Minor nitpick:
> > 
> > You must use `$Id:$', or cvs will not expand it.  The `:' is needed.
> 
> Your assertion does not agree with my experience... I consistantly use $Id$
> prior to initial checkin, and have never seen it to require the ':'. In
> fact, the above is an exceedingly standard construct (though usually done
> as an RCSID macro, with optional GCC attribute tagging as unused) in some
> number of the projects I contribute source to.

I concur. From cvs.info:

`$Id$'
     Same as `$Header$', except that the RCS filename is without a path.

Mike.
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