Re: irt: Re: Core statement on version control systems

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2025, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> However the "$Header$" and "$Source$" keyword expansions will contain a
> full pathname to the RCS file in the CVS repository.  Similarly
> "$CVSHeader$" expands to a relative path to the RCS file (with the CVS
> "root" stripped off).  We could/should call these "poisonous" RCS
> keywords.
>
> Note though that expansions of the "$NetBSD" RCS/CVS keyword only
> include the filename, no path part, so it won't cause any problems.

Interesting, thanks for the explanation.

You currently have a chance to see this phenomenon in action: within the 
last week, there was such a change in the pkgsrc git conversion that 
caused the last ~1500 commits to change hashes. I haven't tracked down 
what exactly triggered it.

--
Benny