Re: Lying about the author (and so).

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, April 12, 2002 at 16:41:39 (-0400), gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Lying about the author (and so).
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:31:18PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On Friday, April 12, 2002 at 12:14:14 (+0200), Jon Krom wrote: ]
> > > 2. When checking-in a file into RCS, one could "ly" about the author.
> > >    Also very useful when importing files that were created by someone
> > >    else.
> > 
> > "su"?
> 
> I think Jon wants to supply something that's not a username on his
> system at all. (... and I think you'd argue that this is meant to
> be a username on the CVS server rather than any random token. I
> can't decide whether I agree or not.)

"vi $CVSROOT/module/foo,v"?

Really.  This is quite silly.

> Again, I think he wants to tag the source of the, er, source rather
> than place blame. I'd argue that both bits of information are,
> perhaps, important. (Not that I've got a good suggestion for how
> to preserve them both.)

How many times do I have to spell it out?

        "cvs co -ko vendor-module"

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