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Unix version control lore: what, ident
uple of version control commands that deserve wider appreciation: SCCS what and RCS ident. They allow you to find out what source a binary was built from, without having to run it – handy if it is a library! keyword expansion SCCS, RCS, cvs, and svn all have a way to expand keywords in a file when it is checked out of version control.
There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider appreciation: SCCS what and RCS ident. SCCS, RCS, cvs, and svn all have a way to expand keywords in a file when it is checked out of version control. When unifdef was uplifted to git, I wanted to keep its embedded version control keywords – I have a sentimental liking for this old tradition.
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