2014-02-09 4:14 GMT+01:00 sebb <seb...@gmail.com>: > On 8 February 2014 10:35, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hello Bernd, > > > > have a look at [1], point 2 in the Notes Section: > > > > "The SVN $Date$ keyword should not be used, because it relies on the > > clients locale. Use the $Id$ keyword instead (see > > http://markmail.org/message/zx4ii6pq4iin2tol)" > > The message actually says: > > >>> > Please don't use $Date$ - it is rendered using the client Locale, and > so causes problems matching SVN tags against source archives. > > $Revision$ is usally enough; if you really want a date, use $id$ > <<< > > > The Id svn keyword is important for release votes. > > Huh? > > The problem is that the $Date$ keyword makes comparing releases harder. > > Adding $Id$ does not help; it's only that it is better than using $Date$. > Neither is necessary. > > > Since SVN will update > > the keyword on every commit, you can simply diff the src distribution > with > > the release tag to make sure they match. > > We have talked about migrating to git in the passed, but we haven't > really > > reached consensus about this. I don't know whether git will make keywords > > obsolete, since a tag in git is immutable... > > Tags in SVN are also immutable (by convention). >
Which means that they're not immutable :-) > > However SVN updates the working copy with the expansion of certain > special strings. > SVN keywords are a client feature. > > > HTH, > > Benedikt > > > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/commons/CodeStyle > > > > > > 2014-02-08 Bernd Eckenfels <e...@zusammenkunft.net>: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> while playing around with the git mirror (I compared the git clone with > >> the SVN checkout) I noticed that a minority of SVN files (mostly > >> javadoc comments in tests but also one constant in a sample) have an > >> $ID$ comment which expands differently. > >> > >> Ironically there is also a > >> rule about not using $Date$ in checkstyle.xml which is expanded. > >> > >> The later is a bug (as the rule does not work), but for consistency I > >> also propose to remove the other IDs. What do people think? > >> > >> --- vfs/checkstyle.xml 2014-02-08 08:20:50.000000000 +0000 > >> --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/impl/DefaultFileSystemManager.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:50.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/local/LocalFileRandomAccessContent.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:49.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/sftp/IdentityRepositoryFactory.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:49.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/sftp/SftpFileObject.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:49.000000000 +0000 --- > >> vfs/core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/Resources.properties > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:50.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > vfs/core/src/test/java/com/jcraft/jsch/TestIdentityRepositoryFactory.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/http/test/HttpFilesCacheTestCase.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/jar/test/JarAttributesTestCase.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/local/test/ConversionTestCase.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/ram/test/CustomRamProviderTest.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/test/FileObjectSortTestCase.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/UriParserTestCase.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/test/ProviderRandomReadTests.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/test/ProviderRandomReadWriteTests.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> > >> > vfs/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/test/ProviderRandomSetLengthTests.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> vfs/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/util/NHttpServer.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> vfs/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/example/Shell.java > >> 2014-02-08 08:20:48.000000000 +0000 --- > >> vfs/findbugs-exclude-filter.xml 2014-02-08 08:20:50.000000000 +0000 > >> > >> there are 2 empty directories missing in git, but I guess thats not a > >> big problem: > >> > >> Only in vfs/core: jackrabbit > >> Only in vfs/sandbox/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider: > >> webdav > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > > http://github.com/britter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
