On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Jakl wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> Even though I've brought this up in JIRA, I don't see any benefit from >> these tags either - so I'd second the "drop them". >> >> What's the possible benefits from adding the revision and change-date >> to a file in the first place? >> > > In an ancient age, when geeks where trying to get most of their Sinclair ZX > 81, counting CPU cycles, and using undocumented assembly instructions, it > was useful to have those tags, as network was a luxury.
Funny enough, you don't need network to do "svn info pom.xml" ;-) so +1 for removing Maarten > > But most of you guys were probably having milk on your chin back then ;) > > Right now, if I want to get the version of a file, I do : > > elecha...@elecharny-laptop:~/apacheds/new-trunk$ svn info pom.xml > Path: pom.xml > Name: pom.xml > URL: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/apacheds/trunk-with-dependencies/pom.xml > Repository Root: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf > Repository UUID: 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 > Revision: 770457 > Node Kind: file > Schedule: normal > Last Changed Author: elecharny > Last Changed Rev: 577391 > Last Changed Date: 2007-09-19 19:23:55 +0200 (Wed, 19 Sep 2007) > Text Last Updated: 2009-04-27 14:07:58 +0200 (Mon, 27 Apr 2009) > Checksum: d4508878a4ef6be8ce3722325652eb0f > > If I don't have the file under SVN locally, I go on > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/mina, and I look at the file I'm interested in, > to get all the needed info. > > Btw, I *never* do both of those operations, because it's useless... > > So I think those tags are injected into the source file because someone has > some Maxtor(tm)/Seagate(tm) stocks :) > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
