On Wednesday 22 December 2004 03:05 am, Neil Stevens wrote: > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 08:24 am, Bresler, Jonathan wrote: > > Folks, > > These $Id$ make it much easier to discuss the files. > > "see version 1.58 of jabberd14/jabberd/jabber.c" > > Rather than, " the version checked into CVS on 2004-12-21 15:00" > The idea makes merging harder because it adds unnecessary conflicts (as any > two branches will have conflicts in the Id line), and isn't necessary to > acheive your goal of knowing what version was checked out. The sandbox
Umm.. $Id$ does NOT add any additional conflicts. It's a special text string that is actually stored and considered to be, $Id$, and NOT the string that the version represents. The string presented is the one the sandbox considers it to be, and it allows the version information to be present in CVS exports for release builds and the such.. _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
