Re: RCS keyword removal

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 05:18:30PM +0200, Andre Spiegel wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 08:00, Miles Bader wrote:
> 
> > The ones I _didn't_ remove were in vc-*.el
> 
> Could you tell me what specific operations they cause you trouble with? 
> (Others who are having trouble with version headers, please also
> respond.)

With merging between different branches outside of CVS.  A merge is done, and
then the merged branches reconciled with CVS -- which changes the keywords,
and causes more spurious changes, which then end up becoming part of the long
term branch state.  These are then are persistant sources of merge conflicts
in future merges.

Ideally I could globally use the CVS -kb option on checkout/update to prevent
all keyword expansion, but the CVS docs are very unclear on the actual effect
of that, e.g what would the actual value of existing embedded keywords (in
existing code, or new code committed by people who _didn't_ globally force
-kb, i.e., most people)?

-Miles
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