On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 03:22:08PM -0700, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: > On Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:48:17 PM UTC+2, Magnus Therning wrote: > > > > > > I'd be very interested in hearing your use case for having that info > > in the file. I'd love to be convinced that all those other VCSs > > haven't wasted effort on implementing a rather useless feature :) > > This is not my problem, but I'll bite :)
Good :) > We have a live environment where we very often have to "hot deploy" > single files between releases. These small hot-deployments go mostly > unmanaged, so it's good to have these keywords in the files so we > can quickly recognize hot-fixes (has this file been patched on this > server yet?) . > > (based on a true story from SVN times) Well, I'm not too surprised... I mean I know of "hot deployments" that consist of someone opening up an editor and manually fixing the issue based on a developer's instructions over the phone... your example is a step up from that at least. I must say though that your example might constitute another argument *against* having keywords, that sort of deployment process quickly leads to a mess ;) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. -- Steve McConnell, Code Complete
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