Presence of a Id CVS / RCS identity marker is checked, e.g.
Id myfile.ycp,v 1.2 2001/02/14 18:04:50 sh Exp
This CVS / RCS ID is the only way of finding out exactly what CVS revision the
file has and what change date. The file date (what ls -l
shows) is
absolutely unreliable and irrelevant: This may have changed just by copying the
file around which didn't change anything.
This is important for bug tracking and for finding and fixing bugs - only when a developer knows what version of a file has been used he has a chance to reproduce a bug - or even make sure that a supposedly fixed bug didn't turn up again.
Presence of
Id:
is checked. There may be more characters before the closing dollar sign
"$
", but the exact contents is not checked.
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When creating a new file, it is absolutely sufficient to
include the unexpanded string (" |