Re: RCS ids in sources, argh

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Phil Edwards wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:03:31PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> > I know some people are absurdly fond of RCS Id: strings in source
> > code, but they are a mondo pain for anybody who imports FSF sources
> > into their own repository - every one of them looks like a conflict
> > to CVS, and has to be fixed via manual edits.  This is pretty tedious
> > when it happens to half the files in docs/html for instance.  Could
> > we *please* not have id strings in the sources?
> 
> Sure.  I needed them to solve a problem at the time, and that problem
> has been solved.  They've been useful since then, but not critical.
> (I'm talking about the ones in the HTML header block.)  Do you want to
> remove them, if you're already having to edit the sources, or shall I?
> (I won't get to it for a day or two.)

I'm happy to edit them out, but I'm guessing from the context that
some of them must be auto-generated, and I'd need a couple hints to
find out where those come from (depths of doxygen?).

Stan