Hi Heiner, >> A reason to drop at least the $Author$ field from the legal headers, to >> avoid confusion? (I wonder, anyway, why RCSs are designed and used in a >> way where the RCS modifies the stored content---expanding $...$ >> fields---, as that cannot work in general.) > > Yes, yes please let's do this. And while we are at it, let's remove the > other $keywords$ as well. They really do make merges more complicated, > without adding much of a value.
In fact, with our current working style, those keywords are rather useless - unless you work in a CWS, on a file which has been altered in this CWS before, the "$author$", "$date$" etc. information is wrong, anyway (since it refers to the integration of the CWS where this file was previously changed). I'm in for removing it (spares me this "-kk" switch everytime I want to see what really happened in a file, to suppress the disturbing keyword diffs). But do we really want to touch all headers in all the files in all our modules? Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
