Brian Jones wrote:

> Shouldn't we use some of these keywords in the source code?
> My thoughts are that after tagging the source for a release and then
> doing the export then it is obvious to anyone even outside the usual
> classpath developer what version of the file they are dealing with and
> when it was last edited, etc.

My past experience was that use of these tags caused gratuitous merge
conflicts, i.e. when merging a branch into the trunk.  Maybe CVS has
improved since then or maybe branches will never be necessary.  Otherwise, I
would recommend staying away from RCS id tags.

-Scott


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