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Subject: Re: CVS commit: src

From: David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>

Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:14 +0000


On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:15:54AM +0000, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
 > Log Message:
 > OpenBSD uses a custom CVS hack to handle Dd fields ($Mdocdate$) which
 > we don't have. Replace ".Dd $Mdocdate" with ".Dd Month Day Year" so
 > that the date comes out right when man pages get built. This will
 > doubtless need hand conflict resolution whenever these pages are
 > re-imported.
 > 
 > Note that it would be interesting to have some similar facility for
 > NetBSD, but I don't think a custom rcs keyword is the right thing --
 > maybe we can teach groff to parse $Date$

Eh, I think the system we have (bump date by hand) works ok, plus it
allows bumping the date only on substantive content changes rather
than for every minor formatting tweak.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost




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