[ILUG] Version tags.

[Brian Foster]

  | From: Dave O Connor <doc+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie>
  | Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:09:29 +0000
  | 
  | Chris Collins said on Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:28:37PM +0000:
  | >   $Id: DB.php,v 1.46 2004/01/29 00:05:05 danielc Exp $
  | > Anybody care to enlighten me as to where they come from,
  | > what they mean and how (or why) I'd use them?
  |
  | They're CVS ID tags.  [ ... ]

 actually, that format originated with RCS, and is also used by CVS.
 see the “KEYWORD SUBSTITUTION‟ section of the co(1) man(1) page for
 details.  (SCCS has a similar concept, but the details are quite
 difference; if you have SCCS, see the get(1) man page, AFAICR,
 for details.)

cheers!
     -blf-
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