Re: Customizable Keywords

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:12:47AM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <epg@pretzelnet.org> writes:
> > In any case, i have two comments about this. First, some
> > analogue of CVS's Id will be necessary (containing the filename,
> > last revision in which it changed, who changed it, and when).
>
> Can you give some reasons why an equivalent of $Id$ is necessary?
> I.e., Why it's worthwhile to have keywords that are just combinations
> of other keywords?
>
> Not being sarcastic, just want to know.
>
> > Second, most projects want a custom keyword ($NetBSD$,
> > $XConsortium$, etc.), usually made equivalent to Id.
>
> What do these keywords do? Why are they preferable to $Id$ or to the
> equivalent combination of more primitive keywords?

so if you are in FreeBSD, and import code from NetBSD, you can tell
what revision from NetBSD was imported, generally. if both used $Id$,
you would just overwrite it.

-garrett

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