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Are RCS ID's bad?
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- Subject: Are RCS ID's bad?
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:59:02 -0400
Hello,
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?
GDB has gdb/version.in as a revision identifier. Going by recent
e-mail's this is proving very effective - people are identifying GDB
snapshots and checkouts by date (although sometimes the quoted dates are
backwards :-)
Andrew