Re: CVS commit: src/sys/external/isc/atheros_hal/dist

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jan 1,  2:53pm, lacombar%gmail.com@localhost ("Arnaud Lacombe") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/external/isc/atheros_hal/dist

| On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Christos Zoulas 
<christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
| > On Dec 31,  3:54pm, lacombar%gmail.com@localhost ("Arnaud Lacombe") wrote:
| > -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/external/isc/atheros_hal/dist
| >
| > | now that the HAL is open-source and its development happens now
| > | publically, I think the RCS ID could be removed, while still being on
| > | the vendor branch though.
| >
| > It is useful to have as a reference point for the import (knowing which
| > version of which file was imported). We do this for everything else.
| this is handled by the SVN revision number in the `releasetag' (or
| `vendortag', 'never know which is which) field of the vendor branch.

Yes, but it is still helpful to have the original revision number handy
for CVS repository imports. Not everything is SVN-based.

christos