Re: New location for i2c-tools.git

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Hi Wolfram,

On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:50:00 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > The only remaining problem is that some files have occurrences of $Id$,
> > $Revision$ and $Date$, which SVN would replace on the fly but git does
> > not. Not sure what to do with them, replace them with something git
> > supports (not sure that exists?), or discard them.
> 
> Discard them, I'd say. You have all the history on your disk, so you
> have all the information from there.

For C source files, I agree, these keywords are useless.

The problem is for scripts, like decode-dimms (and sensors-detect, for
the lm-sensors part.) We can't "#include <version.h>" from these, and
my experience is that including a "manual" version string in such
scripts doesn't work because we tend to forget to update it (can
probably be addressed with some discipline.)

Also including the date turned out to be very convenient to figure out
quickly if a user report was from a recent enough version of the script
(particularly useful for sensors-detect, of which the latest snapshot
was available for direct download and in-place execution.)

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support