Put this stone-age device in a museum. ;-)
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 14:57, John Peterson <jwpeter...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The MOOSE team has been discussing the possibility of removing the SVN
> $Id$ and friends keywords from the libmesh source.
>
> One reason this would be a good change is that most new files are
> created by copy-and-pasting old ones, but the authors (myself
> included) of said files rarely remember to turn on SVN keyword
> expansion[0] for the new file.
>
> The result is a hard-coded, and eventually outdated, $Id$ string for
> anyone who subsequently checks out the file.
>
> Doing away with $Id$ keywords completely (which are irrelevant to git
> users anyway) would obviously fix this human error problem.
>
> The other reason to get rid of the SVN keywords is a selfish one. We
> maintain a "stable" branch of libmesh (in an SVN repo separate from
> SF.net) for our users, which is periodically updated through a bit of
> git+patch hackery. The keyword expansion issue mentioned above makes
> this process more complex and error-prone than is absolutely
> necessary.
>
> We tried to imagine what we'd lose by not having the SVN keywords in
> every file. Other than the minor drawback of svn exported
> files/tarballs not having the version and date strings in them, we
> couldn't think of anything major.
>
> Are there any developers out there absolutely relying on the SVN
> keywords at this time, or who just plain feel strongly about keeping
> them in?
>
> --
> John
>
> [0] For libmesh: svn propset svn:keywords "Date Author Revision
> HeadURL Id" foo.C
>
>
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