Base system config file headers...
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Mon Oct 1 11:25:54 PDT 2007
Modulok wrote:
> In the header of many of the base system's config files there are
> lines similar to this:
>
> "# $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.32.2.1 2006/03/06 22:23:10 rwatson Exp $"
>
> Do these have any useful purpose, other than as a human-readable
> comment? Some kind of versioning or update information to be processed
> by some automated tool of some sort?
mergemaster will pay attention to these and can do a better job of
automatically updating config files which have not been hand-editted.
> Basically I just want to know if I can safely delete them in any config files I tweak.
You can safely delete them, but it's probably not worth doing unless you are
significantly re-writing the config file.
--
-Chuck
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