The user manual says that an RCS ID can be used to derive revision and
author information:

. An RCS/CVS/SVN $Id$ marker (if an $Id$ revision marker is used the
  header author line can be omitted).

When I first read that description, which is in the same section that
discusses the :Revision: attribute setting, I assumed the syntax went
something like this:

Revision: $Id: $

I also assumed that this setting needed to occur near the top of the
file in its header section.

The example clears things up:

cat rcs-id-marker-test.txt
RCS $Id$ Marker Test
====================
$Id: mydoc.txt,v 1.5 2009/05/17 17:58:44 jbloggs Exp $


Lorum ipsum...

Adding some clarification and an example to the user manual would be
helpful.
It would also be useful to state that the following fields are set:
revnumber, revdate, and author.

(Note: "revision" and "date" are apparently deprecated, and older
examples use those attribute names.
The manual does not mention this.  It would be good if the more
commonly visited "how to" pages
were updated to use the new attribute names.)

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