From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Meta-data in source files
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:31:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EHAVD-0007KV-Bx@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2br2qo3dn.fsf@tiscali.de> (message from Emilio Lopes on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:29:56 +0200)
Could we agree to refrain from storing meta-data in source files? I'm
referring here to things like "Time-stamp: ..." and CVS' "$Id" and
friends.
The right place for this information is in the version control system.
Putting them in the source files causes spurious conflicts, specially
in the case of "Time-stamp", which CVS doesn't understand.
I have always preferred not to have such things in Emacs source files.
It is the people who wrote the files (outside Emacs) who want them,
but in Emacs itself they tend to cause confusion. I have stopped
pushing on it, but I would be glad if those were deleted.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-19 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-18 14:29 Meta-data in source files Emilio Lopes
2005-09-18 19:08 ` Eric Hanchrow
2005-09-19 18:32 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-09-20 0:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-19 1:31 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-09-19 18:57 ` Emilio Lopes
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