Quoting Ken Rickard <agentrickard@gmail.com>:

OK, now I'm confused, since the standard changed slightly since I wrote my .info file.

I changed the version string to version = "$Name" and committed the change.

When I then run cvs update, the string in the info file returns as:

version = "$Name: $"

See the comments at http://drupal.org/node/101009

I assume that this is by design and I should not worry about it. But it does not conform to the documentation.

Nothing to worry about. Can you give a reference to the documentation that has confused you? We need to update any documentation that may be confusing. Earnie