On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:30:54 +0200 Fabian Groffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. I do the same. The '$Header: $' tells me which version of a file in the CVS tree I last synced to in my overlay, then I can just do a cvs diff on the tree to get a patch of differences since then. Very useful. -- Kevin F. Quinn
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