Re: converting gnulib: cvs to git

[Bob Proulx]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
> > I find these markers useful when comparing file dates when updating
> > old software, and I think it would be a clear disadvantage if moving
> > to git won't make the same thing possible.
> 
> They are controversial.  I'd rather remove them, at least in the files
> I help maintain.  They cause me more problems than they cure, because
> they introduce spurious changes.  Call me an Aristotelian if you like,
> but I prefer to keep metadata separate from data.

I generally prefer to have the keywords removed.  I have spent
enumerable amounts of time wading through differences in files when I
am trying to merge together projects that have drifted apart.  In my
case this has almost always been rcs projects but the effect is the
same.  They cause a lot of manual brain work to sort out what is real
and what is keyword artifact.  I have been doing all of my conversions
using 'co -kk' so as to avoid the noise there.

In my early years of programming I always put those keywords in
files.  In my recent years of programming I have learned to despise
them and now always take them out.  You live, you learn.

Bob