svn commit: r316688 - head/share/man/man5

Ngie Cooper yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 00:05:28 UTC 2017


On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
...
> It looks like several of these $FreeBSD$ entries on the individual
> WITH_/WITHOUT_ entries ended up with bogus rev numbers on the previous
> src.conf.5 regen so there are a number of spurious entries in this
> diff, but I confirmed that the content changes are as desired.
>
> I'd like to change makeman to eliminate the copied $FreeBSD$ content
> from each WITH_/WITHOUT_ block, leaving one $FreeBSD$ for the
> generated file as a whole. My initial motivation was to allow
> src.conf.5 to be generated in a git working tree or other VCS that
> does not expand the $FreeBSD$ tags, but it also eliminates spurious
> diffs when regenerating on a stable branch and would have avoided the
> spurious changes here.
>
> That change is in Phabricator review D7997: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7997.

The reason for the bogus $FreeBSD$ entries is actually because the
files themselves are fixed in time (due to svn copy/svn switch'es and
the like). Admittedly, this is a good case for getting rid of the RCS
metadata altogether.
Thanks!
-Ngie


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