From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Direct CVS Access to egcs sources 
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 10:14:00 -0000
Message-id: <11780.886961802@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <rzq90rmhw5n.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>
X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg00295.html

  In message < rzq90rmhw5n.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk >you write:
  > Why isn't the usual `ident' mechanism appropriate, given you can't
  > guarantee the integrity of a given set of sources, even WRT a given
  > date?  Do the potentially-annoying problems with patches swing it or
  > something else?
RCS keyword expansion is a pain to deal with when merging in changes from
multiple source trees.

One of the things on my long term todo list is to find the few remaining
keywords in egcs and kill them.

jeff