[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch and $Id$

[John Goerzen]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

>     > Can tla expand keywords like $Id$ in CVS?
>
> Integration of revision control into source and build processes and so
> forth is a good idea -- but I doubt that that mechanism is the one we
> want.    It happened to be convenient to implement in CVS (and it's
> antecdents) -- that's the only reason you've heard of it.

It's not so much for integration into source and build processes that
I want this.  It's more for the situations where I get a bug report or
somebody is looking at a random file and I have no idea what version
it's from.  It's magnificently easy to tell them, "OK, what does the
$Id$ line say?" and then find it right in the repository.

Subversion, like Arch, has a per-repository rather than a per-file
changeset notion, will update those flags only when the file changes,
which is fine for me.

Incidentally, this is not a big deal to me.  It's just part of the
"nice to have" category.

-- John