Newer gcc swallow version control keywords

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> One reason that nobody really cares about this trick any more is that it has
> become MUCH LESS IMPORTANT on modern version control systems, e.g., Subversion
> or Git, where there is a single version number (or version hash) for the
> entire project, not one per file.

This is an idealistic argument that breaks down in many real-world
situations. Some examples include build and release processes parts of
which are done manually by copying files around, developers forgetting
to check in a file or two, and (binary) patches/updates sent to
individual customers one by one. The real world is, unfortunately, not
entirely blissful.

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Oleg Goldshmidt | oleg at goldshmidt.org