What's up with these comments? 11870 Sat Mar 28 16:10:58 2009 -0700 sage/algebras/quatalg/__init__.py: # quaternion algebra init file 14468 Sun Apr 25 12:04:13 2010 +0200 sage/coding/source_coding/__init__.py: # Just a comment so that __init__.py is not an empty file. 9029 Sun Mar 23 19:08:49 2008 +0100 sage/combinat/matrices/__init__.py: 9747 Thu May 22 17:23:43 2008 -0700 sage/combinat/posets/__init__.py: # this file shouldn't be empty :) 8006 Fri Jan 04 16:35:20 2008 -0700 sage/combinat/sf/__init__.py: 10705 Tue Oct 07 16:27:19 2008 -0700 sage/combinat/species/__init__.py: 11233 Mon Dec 15 21:09:51 2008 +0100 sage/combinat/words/__init__.py: 11233 Mon Dec 15 21:09:51 2008 +0100 sage/combinat/words/__init__.py: 12596 Wed Jun 24 14:48:19 2009 -0700 sage/crypto/block_cipher/__init__.py: # 13879 Sun Dec 13 21:17:37 2009 -0800 sage/crypto/public_key/__init__.py: # 9821 Sat May 31 18:22:06 2008 -0700 sage/finance/__init__.py: # Quantitative Finance 2619 Wed Jan 24 13:29:39 2007 -0800 sage/games/__init__.py: # init file 14702 Mon Jun 07 19:43:56 2010 +0200 sage/graphs/modular_decomposition/__init__.py: # This file is not empty ! 14604 Thu Jul 01 10:26:55 2010 +0100 sage/groups/additive_abelian/__init__.py: # 12028 Mon Apr 13 16:35:24 2009 -0700 sage/homology/__init__.py: 15736 Sun Jan 16 00:18:02 2011 -0500 sage/interacts/__init__.py: 15736 Sun Jan 16 00:18:02 2011 -0500 sage/interacts/__init__.py: 11007 Sat Nov 22 18:48:45 2008 -0800 sage/libs/gmp/__init__.py: 14759 Wed Mar 24 21:38:22 2010 -0700 sage/libs/lcalc/__init__.py: #a comment so that the file is not empty 14759 Wed Mar 24 21:38:22 2010 -0700 sage/libs/lcalc/__init__.py: 12619 Fri Jun 19 15:17:45 2009 -0700 sage/libs/mpmath/__init__.py: 0 Sat Feb 11 01:13:08 2006 +0000 sage/libs/mwrank/__init__.py: 0 Sat Feb 11 01:13:08 2006 +0000 sage/libs/mwrank/__init__.py: 0 Sat Feb 11 01:13:08 2006 +0000 sage/libs/mwrank/__init__.py: 12968 Thu Jul 16 16:14:57 2009 +0100 sage/libs/polybori/__init__.py: # Insert a comment here to prevent repo corruption. 6047 Fri Aug 31 14:00:05 2007 -0700 sage/logic/__init__.py: # This is the init file for logic. 11914 Mon Mar 23 18:32:40 2009 +0000 sage/modular/arithgroup/__init__.py: # do nothing 11914 Mon Mar 23 18:32:40 2009 +0000 sage/modular/arithgroup/__init__.py: 11903 Mon Mar 30 11:26:34 2009 +0100 sage/modular/overconvergent/__init__.py: pass 11870 Sat Mar 28 16:10:58 2009 -0700 sage/modular/quatalg/__init__.py: # Modular forms using quaternion algebras -- initialization file 15066 Wed Sep 22 19:19:18 2010 +0200 sage/numerical/backends/__init__.py: # not an empty file 14047 Tue Feb 23 06:41:52 2010 -0800 sage/rings/finite_rings/__init__.py: # initialization file for finite fields. 4439 Fri Mar 30 04:12:48 2007 -0400 sage/rings/padics/__init__.py: # padic initialization file 4440 Fri Mar 30 04:14:56 2007 -0400 sage/rings/polynomial/__init__.py: # Initialization file for polynomials 4443 Wed Apr 04 17:35:38 2007 -0400 sage/rings/polynomial/padics/__init__.py: # Initialization file for p-adic polynomials 15333 Thu Jan 13 14:19:11 2011 +0000 sage/schemes/plane_conics/__init__.py: 15333 Thu Jan 13 14:19:11 2011 +0000 sage/schemes/plane_conics/__init__.py: 7791 Sat Dec 15 21:32:26 2007 -0800 sage/stats/__init__.py: # stats 14133 Sun Mar 28 14:45:59 2010 -0700 sage/stats/hmm/__init__.py: # hmm 10735 Thu Aug 07 21:28:54 2008 +0200 sage/symbolic/__init__.py: #this file is not empty 13897 Fri Aug 21 14:23:04 2009 -0300 sage/symbolic/integration/__init__.py: #this file is not empty 14888 Sun Sep 05 09:50:22 2010 +0200 sage/tensor/__init__.py: # This comment is here so the file is non-empty (so Mercurial will check it in). 14949 Mon Sep 20 05:37:29 2010 +0200 sage/tests/french_book/__init__.py: # This comment is here so the file is non-empty (so Mercurial will check it in).
I asked some guys in #mercurial and they said they'd never heard of repository corruption from empty files or mercurial not being able to commit empty files. What's the reason for these comments? Or are they just FUD? :) -Keshav ---- Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
