Re: [sleuthkit-developers] Date Keyword Expansion

[Michael C. <scu...@gm...>]

Hi Brian,
  The whole keyword expansion thing imho is just a hack its not really
needed since any decent VC system can tell you the latest date a file
was changed. The only thing we have in the top of our files is a
version string which contains a date a release was made (not when the
file was changed). This then makes it easier to see which actual
release a file came from when not under version control.

We just use a quick bash script to sed the version string in prior to release.

I vote to remove the whole keyword expansion thing.

Michael.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Brian Carrier <ca...@sl...> wrote:
> I'm in the process of migrating from CVS to SVN and will be making
> the repository public. One difference that I have found between CVS
> and SVN is the handling of keyword expansion.  SVN seems to require
> that you configure each file for keyword expansion. The TSK/autopsy
> code currently has the $Date$ keyword in each file.
>
> I'm not sure if I have ever used the $Date$ keyword in practice and
> it always forces me to rebuild a lot of files when I checkin a .h
> file. It seems error-prone to make sure that every file has the
> keyword expansion setting enabled. Any arguments on why I should keep
> it around?
>
> brian
>
>
>
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