Re: the cvs equivalent of $Log$

Dear Kevin!

Kevin Tomasek schrieb:
> svn has the $author, $rev, $date, ... but no $log, $comment or
> equivalent. as svn already has the plumbing to do this, as verified by
> these other keyword substitutions, why is there not one for the comment?

In many cases it is better to have no information instead of out-dated
or wrong information.

Although on the first glance Subversion and CVS seem to be similar they
aren't. Subversion is a kind of successor of CVS but it is definitely
*NOT* an updated version of CVS which has to stay compatible.

An automatically generated log message may contain too much or unrelated
information about a commit.

And what do you want to be done if you do (in CVS terms) "branching" or
"tagging"? Those are simple and cheap(!) copy operations on the
repository. Only meta-data will be modified but not the file contents
itself. Creating a log entry would cause changes probably to thousands
or millions of files; and dynamic log expansion during check-out or
update has the disadvantage that specific entries can't be removed.

With best regards
Andreas Schweigstill

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