Re: RCS/CVS keywords ($Id$, $Header$, $OpenBSD$ etc)

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>]

Denis Ovsienko <infrastation () yandex ru> wrote:
    > It seems to be OK to just remove the lines that essentially state "this
    > file is a part of the tcpdump source tree and is original to it", for
    > example:

    > #ifndef lint static const char rcsid[] _U_ = "@(#) $Header:
    > /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/print-ospf.c,v 1.66 2007-10-08 07:53:21 hannes
    > Exp $ (LBL)"; #endif

Remove them.
Some things like:

    > /* $NetBSD: print-ah.c,v 1.4 1996/05/20 00:41:16 fvdl Exp $ */

could, yes, remain. Particularly in comments, rather than rcsid[].

(I still miss $Id$, and the SCCS "what" command...)

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