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RCS keyword expansion
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- Subject: RCS keyword expansion
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:31:45 +0100 (BST)
Should we or should we not use RCS keyword expansion in GCC? I had the
impression that it was disliked for GCC (bulks up diffs, complicates
merges, etc.), but it appears in gcc/doc/install.texi and the libstdc++
web pages.
e.g. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1998-02/msg00295.html suggesting the
remaining (as of February 1998) uses in GCC should die.
(Disabling it for individual files via cvs admin is no good if they
already have the keywords in, since this would break checkouts of old
versions.)
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk