[Zope3-checkins] SVN: Zope3/trunk/ Ignore files/directories that are result of a build process, such

[Fred Drake]

On Thursday 13 May 2004 01:21 am, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
 > Yup. Btw, the "$Id$" keyword issue has not been fixed yet. We need to
 > set svn:keywords="Id" on every file where we want the Id keyword to be
 > expanded. To make svn pick it up, the original string needs to read
 > "$Id$". A previous CVS expansion of the Id keyword will not get picked
 > up by svn.

Perhaps we should examine "the issue" a little more carefully.  Do we *want* 
$Id$ expansions, or anything else expanded?  I've never seen it as anything 
but docstring pollution, but I know Jim likes it.

The move to Subversion is an opportunity to revisit this aspect of the 
guidelines.  Let's try not to encourage this sort of pollution in the new 
repository.

 > I'm volunteering to do this (by writing a small script that iterates
 > over files, sets the svn:keywords property and replaces $Id ...$ with
 > $Id$ accordingly).

Please, let's not.  Expecting much of end user configurations is a mistake, 
and it's quite fragile.  It also creates a great deal of burden on developers 
involved in projects with conflicting guidelines for their Subversion 
repositories; the closer we can be to living with the default configuration, 
the better.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation