Shachar Shemesh writes:
> I understand why these keywords were useful for CVS/RCS, where each
> file had its own version number. When working with SVN, however, a
> single number uniquely identifies the entire source tree. Why not
> have that one number and get it done with?
I believe it has bee
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> > I didn't understand how, eg, my C++ scheme don't work. I think it should
> > work even if you're including the $Id$ strings in the headers files.
>
> Apart from the fact that you assume that main.cc is mine (what if my
> product is a lib
On 10/18/2011 12:50 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>> I understood that, and it's still unstable. Since if some young team member
>> not aware of the $Id: trick, will write:
>> log("$Id: %d $Name: %s\n",id,name)
>> ident will return garbage.
> Someone may alter keyword expansions just before the bu
