TM, continued.

[Egbert Eich]

Keith Packard writes:
 > 
 > Around 13 o'clock on Mar 19, Jim Gettys wrote:
 > 
 > > He suggests when we modify a file with the tags present that
 > > we modify it to say "Based on XFree86" and the rest of the CVS
 > > tag information.
 > 
 > To avoid possible problems in failing to do this, I suggest that we
 > change every tag in the system to
 > 
 > /* Based on $XFree86: ... $ */
 > 
 > We can easily automate that process and avoid future problems.
 > 
 > And, at the same time, we can add regular $Id: $ lines above that and make 
 > sure our CVS tags are included.  Given a shared CVS repository, there's no 
 > real need to use a custom tag any longer -- people who want to create a 
 > private repository can deal with the problem themselves.
 > 

Later versions of cvs should have support for custom tags.
Unfortunately not the 11.x versions that appear to be the
most stable ones.
However I always found custom tags quite useful when code
is shared among different projects. 

Egbert.