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Re: Are RCS ID's bad?


On Aug 9,  2:59pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> I'm considering deleting any line containing something like:
> 
> 	$Id: .... $
> 
> ($Date: ..$; ....) from the GDB source tree.  They make a right mess of 
> merges, diffs, compares and the like.
> 
> Can anyone come up with a reason to retain these?

FWIW, I'm all in favor of getting rid of them.  I once did a merge (in
a different tree) between the trunk and a branch which had a lot of
conflicts.  Over ninety percent of them were due to RCS identifiers.

Kevin


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