Newer gcc swallow version control keywords

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 10/18/2011 12:50 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>> I understood that, and it's still unstable. Since if some young team member
>> not aware of the $Id: trick, will write:
>>     log("$Id: %d $Name: %s\n",id,name)
>> ident will return garbage.
> Someone may alter keyword expansions just before the build, too.
>
>> If you have documented way to get the ident strings, it's more stable.
> The whole point is to have these strings everywhere, otherwise they
> are not very useful. This means the whole development team is aware of
> and uses the convention.
>
I understand why these keywords were useful for CVS/RCS, where each file
had its own version number. When working with SVN, however, a single
number uniquely identifies the entire source tree. Why not have that one
number and get it done with?

Shachar

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