On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:52:38AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > What's the policy on including $Id$ string changes in diffs - yay or > nay? Or only if you do a *complete* merge up to that revision? I'm > currently prepping a patch that should fix the ()*#$ i830 waitring > deadlock o' doom, and wondering what I should do with the $Id$ string > change.
My practice is: Only include upstream Id keyword updates if you're making the file in question *exactly* like the version so marked in upstream CVS. This is partly a matter of truth in advertising, but mostly it was provoked by the incredible levels of frustration that occur when you try to apply a patch that WOULD apply except for the damn $Id$ line not looking like what the patch command expects. -- G. Branden Robinson | Intellectual property is neither Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual nor property. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Discuss. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Linda Richman
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