Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:39:45 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/coda cnode.h coda_io.h coda_namecache.c coda_namecache.h coda_pioctl.h coda_psdev.c coda_subr.c coda_vfsops.c coda_vnops.c coda_vnops.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907300936590.385-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <yzszp0fe40w.fsf@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
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On 29 Jul 1999, Robert V. Baron wrote: > Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> writes: > > > Poul,CMU alway use RCS Log: on their stuff. > > Since they are maintainign this maybe it might have been a good idea ask > > them first, because they are trying to keep this in sync with their > > internal stuff.... this is not our place to clean this up.. it's their > We have no internal stuff. This is the real stuff as far as FreeBSD > is concerned; this is what we use. So if you guys don't want to have > comments, we'll live with it. On the otherhand, I've always liked the > ability to look at the log and see what the last change was likely to > break. > > Also, given there is a hefty boilerplate of copyrights and stuff at > the head of the file, you don't immediately see code w or w/o the $Log. > So why take it out? From my point of view, all the history is available in a nice accessable way with 'cvs log'. Since the CVS tree is publically available, there is not need to copy this history into the file itself. The copyright boilerplate (almost) never changes so doesn't cause problems when generating diffs between revisions. I used to use $Log$ many years ago but I stopped after one of my often changed source files ended up with more log than code :-). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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