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Re: Problems with rcs...

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From: Joachim Schrod
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 09:46
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In article <1991Nov20.204800.28851@nrao.edu>, cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters,208,7209,homephone) writes:
> RCS recognizes a number of file suffixes that are conventionally used
> to denote different types of file contents and sets the default comment
> leader according to its expectations.
> 
> The solution is to set the comment leader explicitly using the -c option
> to the rcs command.  You can do this immediately after the first check-in
> or create the file with rcs -i before the first check-in.  

IMHO a better solution would be to use the prefix before `$Log' as the
comment leader. I.e., if the line is accepted by '^(.*)\$Log.*\$' than
the comment leader is \1.

Any comments on this? (Has anybody an implementation? Is anybody
interested in a new implementation?)

--
Joachim

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