On 20-04-2007 08:22:42 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > does anyone actually find this useful ? i think ive used the value in there > like once (when in reality a `md5sum` would have worked just as well) ... > otherwise, from my perspective: > - it causes annoying bogus hunks in diffs > - not uncommon for people to contact me as the maintainer because i'm in that > - wastes space (well, probably not a strong argument due to bytes vs blocks) > - for mostly green users, it's confusing and they get it wrong
I use it to make deltas of changes made in the tree, and apply those deltas on the overlay I'm using. Without $Header: $ there I have no way to actually see which version I'm dealing with, so which revisions to retrieve for differences. For that reason, I prefer as much files as possible in the tree to have a $Header: $ somewhere, so I can easily sync, keeping my local changes. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
