On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:18:19AM +0100, Alex Blewitt wrote: > To revisit some of the earlier discussions regarding this: > > o We don't include author, because it's accessible from the CVS log > o Since we can also find out the date from the CVS log, there's no > point in having that in the source code as well > > It seemed to be the case that using $Date$ was therefore redundant, > because you could easily find out how old the source was from CVS.
Not to point out the obvious, but all $foo$ tags are available from cvs log. I personally like the $Id$ tag which gives you everything. Yes, it's easy to check cvs log on one file, but a hundred files? The $Id$ tag (and other cvs tag) may be bothersome to committers, but it's a tremendous convenience to the thousands of users who may be looking through the source. -David
