Tjark Weber wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 22:09 +0100, Makarius wrote: >> With Mercurial you have the whole history always around, and there is no >> need to encode (tiny) parts of it in the file. > > Certainly $Id$ keys are rather useless as long as the file is part of a > managed repository. However, files escape into the wild.
I'm no great friend of $Id$, but Tjark does have a point: we release development snapshots and it is very easy to confuse versions when people ask questions about specific files etc. Maybe a good point to add version info to files/do keyword substitution would be makedist? I haven't checked the hg extension in detail, but it might be possible to enable it only for export (archive), not for regular repository traffic. Gerwin
