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[Earnie Boyd]

In creating your patch you can use the diff -I switch to exclude these 
lines.

diff -u3prN -x CVS -I"$Id.*:.*$"
cvs diff -u3pN -I"$Id.*:.*$"

Earnie

Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
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> Nicholas Wourms wrote:
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>> I think it is a good idea to keep the newer BSD rcsid's("$OpenBSD:", 
>> etc.) when contributing ported code.  Keeping a reference to what 
>> version was used is actually quite helpful in that one could go back 
>> at a later date and see if the BSD people caught some bugs which we 
>> might have missed.  
> 
> 
>> As, for non bsd code (such as ISC code, etc.) with plain $Id:'s, I 
>> think that removing the dollar signs would be a good approach there.
> 
> Yes, we also feel some discomfort: when we are using Newlib with our 
> local CVS repository - the information it this $Id string are changes. 
> And, when we are making patches the result is that our patches changes 
> files like "HP strcat.S". No matter that actually only $Id string is 
> patched, we are trying to make minimum changes.
> 
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nicholas
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