From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: "Mcspadden, William C" <william.c.mcspadden@intel.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com, Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Subject: Re: Are RCS ID's bad? 
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:53:00 -0000
Message-id: <200108100952.KAA00622@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
References: <3B737387.4090803@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00107.html

The NetBSD folks use $NetBSD: .. $ instead of $Id: $.  The great advantage 
of this is that if the file is imported into another repository, or if a 
foreign file is imported into NetBSD's repository, then the master Id 
numbers are preserved.

If you are going to keep using such tags, I'd strongly encourage you to 
consider a similar approach ... $GNU:...$?

R.