svn commit: r282572 - vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs

[Bryan Drewery]

On 5/6/2015 6:52 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> Author: pfg
> Date: Wed May  6 23:52:15 2015
> New Revision: 282572
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/282572
> 
> Log:
>   Bring OpenRCS 20150326 to the vendor area.
>   
>   A BSD-licensed alternative to GNU Revision Control System.
>   
>   Obtained from:	OpenBSD
> 
> Added:
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/Makefile   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/buf.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/buf.h   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/ci.1   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/ci.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/co.1   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/co.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/date.y
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/diff.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/diff.h   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/diff3.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/ident.1   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/ident.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/merge.1   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/merge.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcs.1   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcs.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcs.h   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsclean.1   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsclean.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsdiff.1   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsdiff.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsmerge.1   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsmerge.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsnum.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsparse.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsparse.h   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsprog.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsprog.h   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcstime.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsutil.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rcsutil.h   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rlog.1   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/rlog.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/worklist.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/worklist.h   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/xmalloc.c   (contents, props changed)
>   vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/xmalloc.h   (contents, props changed)
> 

I'm seeing a lot of discussion about this in private areas. The majority
of it negative. We might as well get some conversation going.

I have no major opinion on RCS except that it can easily be a package.
We can provide a package on the release media as well.

However, as long as we have $FreeBSD$ tags in our own source files and
compiled binaries I find ident(1) to be very useful for debugging. I
used it just the other day to see what revision someone's /bin/sh was.
We use it in the ports package builder to get an idea of what revision
the port is on (it is not 100% accurate since someone may have modified
distinfo and we are checking Makefile's ident, but it is still very
useful to give an idea of the range of commits).

Can we please consider at least importing ident(1) and disassociating it
from WITHOUT_RCS?

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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