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On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:30:54 +0200 |
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Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 20-04-2007 08:22:42 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > does anyone actually find this useful ? i think ive used the value |
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> > in there like once (when in reality a `md5sum` would have worked |
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> > just as well) ... otherwise, from my perspective: |
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> > - it causes annoying bogus hunks in diffs |
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> > - not uncommon for people to contact me as the maintainer because |
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> > i'm in that |
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> > - wastes space (well, probably not a strong argument due to bytes |
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> > vs blocks) |
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> > - for mostly green users, it's confusing and they get it wrong |
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> I use it to make deltas of changes made in the tree, and apply those |
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> deltas on the overlay I'm using. Without $Header: $ there I have no |
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> way to actually see which version I'm dealing with, so which |
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> revisions to retrieve for differences. |
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> For that reason, I prefer as much files as possible in the tree to |
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> have a $Header: $ somewhere, so I can easily sync, keeping my local |
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> changes. |
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I do the same. The '$Header: $' tells me which version of a file in the |
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CVS tree I last synced to in my overlay, then I can just do a cvs diff |
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on the tree to get a patch of differences since then. Very useful. |
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Kevin F. Quinn |
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