On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote: > > BTW, I have started adding RCS headers too. The only > > disadvantage with them is that when you commit, the file is > > changed, so the build system is triggered... BTW, I decided not > > to put the $Author: $ tag, as it's misleading that the last > > commiter is shown as the author. And the info is there in $Id: $ > > if you really want to know who commited last time... > > > > That is true.. but most of the time if you have committed a change to a > file, the build trigger will change anyway. Please do include the
Not quite true. Because I always test the changes, then commit :). Oh, when you touch configure.ac, it takes a few minutes to come back to an stable situation again ;). > $author$ tag anyway. It is not really misleading (though it may sound > redundant). We all know that $author$ does not refer to the real author > of the project, especially that you do have an AUTHORS file and other > sources that convey who is really responsible for the file. Ok, I will do. BTW, all the misleading thing was about when you release the package. The other ones, $Source, $Date, and $Revision, convey informative information. Oh, yeah, from $Author you can guess who broke it ;). --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
