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Re: [PATCH] #2219 canonicalized keyword and new UUID keyword documentation

From: John Peacock <jpeacock_at_rowman.com>
Date: 2005-03-20 21:36:15 CET

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> For a beginning user first being introduced to version control, or even
> just Subversion, I think they're *far* more likely to use 'revision
> keywords' in basic day-to-day work than the 'svn:keywords' feature...
> don't you think?

Very true, they will use that feature no matter what it is called.

> If I were new to version control, I wouldn't even imagine the
> *existence* of the latter feature, until someone told me about it. ;-)

And that is a very good argument for improving the documentation so that
beginning users are aware that keyword expansion exists... ;-)

John

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