Off list, Larry likened removing $Id$ lines to adding modelines, which we also 
haven't globally done to all Portfiles yet. But it's not really the same thing. 
Adding modelines needs to be done on a case by case basis. For example, if a 
Portfile currently uses tabs, then just adding the modeline that states spaces 
are used would be inaccurate. The person adding the modeline should also be 
converting the tabs to spaces at the same time.

Removing the $Id$ line, by contrast, requires no other actions. I have no 
objection to removing them all at once, and agree that if we make sure the 
buildbot is already busy with some time consuming builds at the time that we 
push that change, we can cancel the applicable portwatcher build before it gets 
around to scheduling the tens of thousands of portbuilder builds.

On the other hand, we do want to eventually build all ports on all builders, 
both to build ports on the new builders that have never been built before, and 
to catch up on some builds on the existing builders that may have been missed; 
committing the change to remove the $Id$ line would be one way to accomplish 
that. But to ensure that doesn't take longer than it needs to, I want to switch 
from SQLite to PostgreSQL, and implement the successcache, before doing that.

Removing the $Id$ lines is not critical. There are other time-critical matters 
of migrating off of macOS forge that still need to be accomplished in the next 
two weeks that we should focus on instead.

In the mean time, feel free to remove the $Id$ lines from your ports as you 
update them, or do nothing with the $Id$ lines until we've figured out what to 
do.

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