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Re: RFC: Interesting keywords inelegance

From: John Peacock <jpeacock_at_rowman.com>
Date: 2005-02-07 19:18:12 CET

Max Bowsher wrote:

> OK, it's a balance - I can understand that. But I'm worried that we may
> have _some_ complexity, which offers too little control to be useful.
>
> I guess I would be reassured if someone can quote some use cases where
> it is useful for svn:keywords to have a value including all 5 keywords.

But I would think that the situation is actually the opposite: it is
very useful to have svn:keywords have values for less than all 5
keywords. AFAIK, the only common use for setting all 5 is in the test
suite to make sure they all work. ;)

John

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