Re: Dev - SVN keywords

Posted by Jacques Le Roux on May 13, 2006; 6:49pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dev-SVN-keywords-tp167385p167386.html



> Switch expansion off. I have never found this to be of much use.
> Vinay

I agree that sometimes keywords give some troubles with merging and . But if
they are usefull, why not keep them ? For instance, knowing the date and the
author of the last modification may be usefull.

Jacques

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Jacopo Cappellato
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 7:25 AM
> To: OFBiz Project Development Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OFBiz] Dev - SVN keywords
>
> Hi,
>
> some time ago I've asked in this thread the developers' opinion about
> the opportunity to keep svn keywords expansion switched on.
>
> I'd like to remove keywords from source files to avoid merging/import
> problems, but also because this kind of meta information is better
> managed in svn logs.
>
> David, Andy, Jacques had already post some interesting comments... any
> other opinion? Should we start a vote?
>
> I think that, now that we are slowly migrating to the new ASL2.0
> license, it is a good opportunity to take a decision on this too.
>
> Jacopo
>
>
> Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
> > Andy,
> >
> > are you sure about it? It is true that keywords in source files are
> > stored unexpanded in SVN and they are expanded only when the
> > checkout/export is done.
> > However I couldn't find a way to disable the expansion since the
> > expansion is triggered by the "svn:keywords" property that is stored in
> > SVN with the source files...
> >
> > Jacopo
> >
> >
> > A. Zeneski wrote:
> >> Keywords in SVN are handled by the client not the server. So, you can
> >> configure your local SVN client to not parse keywords. In this case
> >> you will receive the actual tag back when you checkout/export instead
> >> of the parsed tag. i.e. $Id$ this should help with your merging issues.
> >>
> >> Since this is client controlled, I prefer to keep the tags in the
> >> files so we can use them when generating javadocs and other information.
> >>
> >> Andy
> >
> >
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