Lying about the author (and so).

[Jon Krom]

Dear all,

RCS used to have a few tricks I used every now and then, 
that I haven't found back in CVS yet.

1. When checking-in a file into RCS, one could instruct RCS to use
   The RCS keywords in the file to (re-)construct version numbers 
   etc.  Very useful when importing files from a third party.

2. When checking-in a file into RCS, one could "ly" about the author.
   Also very useful when importing files that were created by someone
   else.

I'm now importing some files created by a third party into my CVS
store.  I do that as a so-called vendor branch; but this branch 
gets my user name as the author.  It would be nice to have the
above mentioned RCS facilities, or at least the second, available
in CVS, but I cannot find them.

Am I not looking hard enough?  Is there another trick I could use?
Or is "lying about the author" (term from the RCS manuals) an 
unreasonable thing to do under CVS?
 

Met Vriendelijke Groeten,
Jon Krom

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