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Cc: Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: gnuserv.el patch
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>>>>> "BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.Va.US> writes:

BAW> The problem comes about when I put the XEmacs beta source files
BAW> under version control so I can send appropriate patches when I
BAW> fix stuff.  My running RCS will clobber your strings and generate
BAW> bogus patch lines.  I've had long discussions with RMS on the
BAW> subject and I think the thing that works best is (if you have $
BAW> RCS keywords in your code) to be sure you check out with -kv
BAW> whenever you give anybody else a copy of code you maintain.

I think that a world- (or beta-testers-) readable read-only XEmacs CVS 
repository would be the solution to all your problems.

  Sam
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Samuel Tardieu -- sam@inf.enst.fr

