[Monotone-devel] Re: Keyword substitution?

[Bruce Stephens]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> Either way, keyword expansion is an error-prone business which
> requires great thought and care, so let's not rush into it.  We have
> bigger issues to deal with,

Yes, these merging assertion failures seem much more worrying, so
fixing those seems much more important (presumably by implementing a
new merging method).

> so I suggest we put the keyword thought on hold for now.

It might be worth someone (preferably more than one person) writing
down expected (or actual, in CVS or other systems) uses of keyword
expansion.  

I don't doubt that there are such uses, but some systems seem to have
keyword expansion, and some don't seem to (I'm fairly sure GNU Arch in
particular is another one that doesn't; I don't recall it being
mentioned for darcs or codeville, but that may well be my memory
rather than their functionality), so it's not clear to me how
important they are.  

For example I'd guess it's possible that subversion has them just
because CVS does, and subversion is trying to be a convenient (and
fairly low-impact) replacement for CVS.