Michael Jakl wrote:
Hi!
Even though I've brought this up in JIRA, I don't see any benefit from
these tags either - so I'd second the "drop them".
What's the possible benefits from adding the revision and change-date
to a file in the first place?
In an ancient age, when geeks where trying to get most of their Sinclair
ZX 81, counting CPU cycles, and using undocumented assembly
instructions, it was useful to have those tags, as network was a luxury.
But most of you guys were probably having milk on your chin back then ;)
Right now, if I want to get the version of a file, I do :
elecha...@elecharny-laptop:~/apacheds/new-trunk$ svn info pom.xml
Path: pom.xml
Name: pom.xml
URL:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/apacheds/trunk-with-dependencies/pom.xml
Repository Root: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
Repository UUID: 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
Revision: 770457
Node Kind: file
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: elecharny
Last Changed Rev: 577391
Last Changed Date: 2007-09-19 19:23:55 +0200 (Wed, 19 Sep 2007)
Text Last Updated: 2009-04-27 14:07:58 +0200 (Mon, 27 Apr 2009)
Checksum: d4508878a4ef6be8ce3722325652eb0f
If I don't have the file under SVN locally, I go on
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/mina, and I look at the file I'm interested
in, to get all the needed info.
Btw, I *never* do both of those operations, because it's useless...
So I think those tags are injected into the source file because someone
has some Maxtor(tm)/Seagate(tm) stocks :)
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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org
