Re: RCS keyword removal

[Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>]

Andre Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org> writes:
> > I'd like to do this, but have been nervous to because of my uncertainity
> > about CVS's behavior.  If people think it's safe to use `-kb' globally
> > I'll do that
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the scope you are talking about.  If you mean
> to switch off keyword expansion in the Emacs CVS repository as a whole
> (so that I would be pretty much the only one who enables it locally),

No, I meant adding them to the `cvs update' command I use to update my
arch branches -- by global I was just referring to the whole emacs tree
(rather than e.g. a single file).

> It was my understanding that these changes would only apply to the
> version of Emacs that is managed in parallel using Arch.

Yes (or at least, that's all I meant).

> Based on this, I would argue that the RCS keywords ought to be enabled
> in the CVS repository (and thus be enabled in every developer's work
> area by default,

Yes, except, of course, developers who use arch instead of CVS.

> and the released versions of Emacs

That's an issue for others to decide (they are probably less useful in
a released emacs than for CVS users).

-Miles
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