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List:       linux-ha-dev
Subject:    Re: [Linux-ha-dev] Re: Killing _Id
From:       Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb () suse ! de>
Date:       2004-01-22 11:44:06
Message-ID: 20040122114406.GF5526 () marowsky-bree ! de
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On 2004-01-22T04:10:20,
   Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh> said:

> >As promised, I've made the patch to kill the _Id mess. It's obviously
> >fairly straightforward: 61 files changed, 237 deletions(-)
> Making this kind of frivolous change during a code freeze is a really good 
> way to get your CVS permissions revoked.  I'd advise you not to do it.

Noted. No need to blow up, that's why I asked before hitting cvs commit,
albeit it was tempting ;-)

> >Seriously, lets do away with it. Some of the comments surrounding the
> >_Id tags are really tell tale signs that this is a bad thing:
> This is all because gcc doesn't properly implement the #ident (or is it 
> #pragma ident nowadays) feature.

#ident is no longer supported, and I also couldn't find pragma ident in
the relevant standards.

> If you're going to get rid of the _Id stuff, then convert them to #idents, 
> or is #pragma ident a better form?  Or at least to comments...

Hm, a /* $Id$ */ at the top of each file might make sense, for those of
the developers without a CVS checkout. How about that?


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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