[Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Baiju M wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>>  I originally wanted $Id$ RCS keywords in module doc strings so that
>>  we could create tools that determined run-time version information.
>>  Unfortunately, subversion makes using this a bit difficult, as it
>>  doesn't update this information by default.
>
> If you add the following lines to svn configuration (~/.subversion/ 
> config) ,
> all new Python files will get that property.
>
> [miscellany]
> enable-auto-props = yes
> [auto-props]
> *.py = svn:keywords=Id # enable id for Python files

Right. Many of us have that, but it's hard to get everyone to set  
that up on every machine they use.

Jim

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