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Re: Are RCS ID's bad?
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Are RCS ID's bad?
- From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:27:57 -0700
- References: <3B72DD76.2010609@cygnus.com>
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