On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:48:46PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Brian Nelson <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>) writes: > > > Perhaps an alternative suggestion could be told to the upstram author: > > > > put in file foo.c > > > > const char foo_ident[] = "$Id$"; > > > > in file bar.c > > > > const char bar_ident[] = "$Id$"; > > > > in file header.h > > > > #define HEADER_IDENT "$Id$" > > Minor nitpick: > > You must use `$Id:$', or cvs will not expand it. The `:' is needed.
Your assertion does not agree with my experience... I consistantly use $Id$ prior to initial checkin, and have never seen it to require the ':'. In fact, the above is an exceedingly standard construct (though usually done as an RCSID macro, with optional GCC attribute tagging as unused) in some number of the projects I contribute source to. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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