On Sep 19, 2004, at 10:27 AM, Florian Stoehr wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:
>> $NetBSD: kern_lock.c,v 1.83 2004/08/04 10:37:08 yamt Exp $
>
>      ^          ^          ^       ^                ^
>     ???    filename      revision  date      last user who modified 
> file
>
> I really dunno how they make that "NetBSD" at the beginning, I usually
> write
>

A hack to CVS.  Makes it so the NetBSD tag is unique so that when some 
other party imports NetBSD sources into their own repository, the 
NetBSD tag stays around so it's easier to track what version of a 
particular file something is based on.

At least that's what I've been told.