On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 5:59 PM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> >The problem with these headers is they force VC to do a lot more work to
>
> VC?


Version control. *Any* version control. RCS and CVS (and before them SCCS)
used, and hacked around, keywords. SVN made most of them go away, and for
diehards re-added (and re-hacked around) $Id$ that had to be enabled with
an svnprop. Git discarded them completely.

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