> Because everytime you check out a file it shows up in a diff > when doing branch maintainence. It's a real pain.
I agree. RCS variables and other "auto" variables in cvs controlled files are one of my pet hates :) It doesn't just make branches hard within samba.org, it also makes life much harder for people who do cvs based development on Samba within their own project (eg. when I was at Quantum).