Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
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?
Whoever did the "drop SISSL" cleanup might know how much work such a
change really is.
Now, who wants to pick this up? (I'm out, I'll be on vacation for the
next couple weeks :)
Ideally, we would also completely disable that expansion feature in the
CVS settings (whatever kind of work that means exactly), right?
-Stephan
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