From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Are RCS ID's bad?
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 12:28:00 -0000
Message-id: <1010809192757.ZM11800@ocotillo.lan>
References: <3B72DD76.2010609@cygnus.com> <ac131313@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00088.html

On Aug 9,  2:59pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> I'm considering deleting any line containing something like:
> 
> 	$Id: .... $
> 
> ($Date: ..$; ....) from the GDB source tree.  They make a right mess of 
> merges, diffs, compares and the like.
> 
> Can anyone come up with a reason to retain these?

FWIW, I'm all in favor of getting rid of them.  I once did a merge (in
a different tree) between the trunk and a branch which had a lot of
conflicts.  Over ninety percent of them were due to RCS identifiers.

Kevin