Eliminate $Id:$

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Tue Jan 17 03:12:44 UTC 2012


On 17/01/12 1:57 AM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> I'm finally around to checking out git! Things are progressing
> smoothly, and I'm updating some of the Wiki pages to convert new users
> to the new processes.  I noticed that we still have $Id$ CVS macros
> hanging around. Can we get rid of these? Or is there a valid need to
> replace them with something else?  A quick internet search showed me
> that there is no great solution for replacing them directly, although
> workarounds to get the same info (commit history) using the git client
> appear to be easy.
>

I vote to remove them plus $Log$, etc. I have never used them as I do 
not trust the data to be valid.

Chris



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