http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dev-SVN-keywords-tp167385p167387.html
In many ways I agree, they are way more of a pain than they are worth in many ways... They do cause lots of merge problems, and I wouldn't mind seeing them gone completely.
The information from them plus much more is available from the command line svn tools like log and such...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm diligently studying the "Pragmatic Version Control Using SVN" book
> by Mike Mason to get a deeper knowledge of the SVN secrets.
> I'm particularly interested in vendor branches and three way merging
> (you can see my notes here
>
http://ofbizwiki.go-integral.com/Wiki.jsp?page=SVNTips).
>
> In the book, the author advises against the use of keyword expansion in
> source files with some good reasonings (and one of these is that with
> keywords it's more difficult to merge different trunks).
>
> I'd like to get your feedback about this subject.
> Do you think that SVN keywords are useful in OFBiz? Would you consider
> to remove them? (It could be easy now that we are in the process of
> changing all the license header to the ASL2.0).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacopo
>
> PS: I know that Vinay Agarwal has setup another wiki page about SVK
> (
http://ofbizwiki.go-integral.com/Wiki.jsp?page=AlternateSVNTips), but
> I'm too lazy now to install a new tool ;-)
>
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