"$Id: index.html,v 1.46 2004/08/19 23:15:05 grog Exp $" ?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday,  2 October 2004 at  2:04:37 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:

Please don't answer these questions on -newbies.  -questions is the
correct mailing list.  I answered there and blind copied this list,
but it seems that blind copying is no longer allowed, so I suppose
nobody saw it.

> robg wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I see this at the end of a lot of documents:
>>
>> $Id: index.html,v 1.46 2004/08/19 23:15:05 grog Exp $
>>
>> or something similar.  How is that done?  Is it done from a text
>> editor that just appends it by itself? How would I go about doign it?
>
> It's the check-in tag that is automaticly appended to a document when it
> is checked into a version management system.
>
> Check out subversion (SVN) if you want to get into version
> management,

Check out Subversion if you want to get into a really complicated way
of version control.  It requires significant setup, and it's based on
a number of other packages.

> also FreeBSD has it's own built-in version management system called
> RCS.

RCS isn't FreeBSD specific.  It's universal, and it also doesn't need
any setup (beyond optionally creating a directory RCS).

Greg
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