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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RCS keyword expansion
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:51:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejg0fcgw.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y7e8jmbm.fsf@barry_fishman.acm.org> (Barry Fishman's message of "Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:05:01 -0400")

* Barry Fishman:

> I changed my editor (Emacs) to convert RCS Ids to timestamps when I
> opened a file for reading.  This would fix old files.  When i wrote out
> files I would update the timestamp before writing them (via emacs's
> timestamp package).  I didn't have to think about it as my RCS Id
> stamped files slowly evolve into my editor stamped ones.  I'm sure I
> could do something similar in VIM, or with a script encapsulating
> another editor.

The downside is that this causes totally unncessary conflicts when
merging.  Maybe a custom merge handler could deal with that, though.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-12 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-11 14:47 RCS keyword expansion Peter Karlsson
2007-10-11 15:02 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-11 15:09 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-10-11 15:59   ` Oliver Kullmann
2007-10-11 18:09     ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-11 20:47     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-11 21:35       ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-12  5:26       ` Peter Karlsson
2007-10-12 10:02         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-12 10:50           ` Peter Karlsson
2007-10-12 11:05             ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-12 11:21             ` Lars Hjemli
2007-10-12 11:34             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-15 14:03               ` Peter Karlsson
2007-10-15 14:28                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-12 12:57             ` Jan Hudec
2007-10-12 19:08         ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-10-12 22:42           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-12 23:52             ` Zakirov Salikh
2007-10-11 17:55   ` Peter Karlsson
2007-10-11 19:21     ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-12  5:27       ` Peter Karlsson
2007-10-12 17:05         ` Barry Fishman
2007-10-12 17:44           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-12 17:51           ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2007-10-11 21:20     ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-11 19:16 ` Lars Hjemli

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