[Zope-Coders] Re: SVN: Zope3/trunk/ Ignore files/directories that are result of a build process, such

[Tres Seaver]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
>> Fred Drake wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday 13 May 2004 01:21 am, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>>>  > Yup. Btw, the "$Id$" keyword issue has not been fixed yet. We need to
>>>  > set svn:keywords="Id" on every file where we want the Id keyword 
>>> to be
>>>  > expanded. To make svn pick it up, the original string needs to read
>>>  > "$Id$". A previous CVS expansion of the Id keyword will not get 
>>> picked
>>>  > up by svn.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we should examine "the issue" a little more carefully.  Do we 
>>> *want* $Id$ expansions, or anything else expanded?  I've never seen 
>>> it as anything but docstring pollution, but I know Jim likes it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Heh, what a typical developer comment.  Fred, those "docstring 
>> pollution" fragments are there for the benefit of the poor dumb 
>> schmuck who has to log in to a box and try to diagnose why the system 
>> deployed last year is broken, not for the poor dumb schmuck who is 
>> busy breaking it in his sandbox. :)
> 
> 
> Have you used this, or know anyone who has?

Yes.  This is how I typically find out which version of Zope is *really* 
installed on a support client's system, as opposed to the version they 
think is installed (often the person who did the actual install is not 
the one maintaining it later).

Tres.
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