Paul Eggert wrote: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I find these markers useful when comparing file dates when updating > > old software, and I think it would be a clear disadvantage if moving > > to git won't make the same thing possible. > > They are controversial. I'd rather remove them, at least in the files > I help maintain. They cause me more problems than they cure, because > they introduce spurious changes. Call me an Aristotelian if you like, > but I prefer to keep metadata separate from data.
I generally prefer to have the keywords removed. I have spent enumerable amounts of time wading through differences in files when I am trying to merge together projects that have drifted apart. In my case this has almost always been rcs projects but the effect is the same. They cause a lot of manual brain work to sort out what is real and what is keyword artifact. I have been doing all of my conversions using 'co -kk' so as to avoid the noise there. In my early years of programming I always put those keywords in files. In my recent years of programming I have learned to despise them and now always take them out. You live, you learn. Bob
