Eliminate $Id:$

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Tue Jan 17 03:27:27 UTC 2012


I have some work from the flight to purge cvs refrences in files but nothing for Id strings. One bsp prints like $Name or something. 

All cvsignore files need to be renamed gitignore.

This needs to start moving to devel list :)

I just got rental car.

Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:

>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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