Re: Future of ident(1)

Has anyone considered that ident(1) works on all the binaries
produced by FreeBSD for the first 25 years it existed?

Ie, you can run ident on a FreeBSD 1.0 binary... 
I also believe it can be run on binaries from many other
systems.


So though we have lost the data in FreeBSD 14, the other
data still exists, and though some might call this obscure,
others of us find this data pricessless in figuring out
from which a binary was made.

Regards,
Rod
> Just in case someone thinks this is something useful, I've got a PR filed
> against git to implement custom $Id$. There are no technical issues with
> the change but Git developers are not very keen on merging it in, since
> they see this as an obscure feature, no one needs. :-/ So if anyone wants
> to chime in on GitHub or git mailing list please do so.
> 
> https://github.com/git/git/pull/1074
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Max
> 
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 2:30 PM Steve Kargl <
> sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > With the new world order, what is the future of ident(1)?
> > Should it be removed from base?  Given a compiled binary
> > in base, how does one find the equivalent git info that
> > ident(1) used to perform?
> >
> > Having a few minutes to dust off old patchs for libm, should
> > I remove $FreeBSD$ tags in files I touch?  For new files, is
> > it expected that useless $FreeBSD$ tags should be added?
> >
> > --
> > Steve
> >
> >

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org