bazaar equivalents for CVS's $Version$ $Author$ $Log$

[Wichmann, Mats D]

bazaar-bounces at lists.canonical.com wrote:

> That said, there has been some work done in this area:
>  http://bazaar-vcs.org/KeywordExpansion
> 
> I'm not sure what the current status is, just that there is some
> interest, and people have done some development.

I used to be interested, because we were migrating code from
cvs with the concept of expanded keywords fairly deeply
ingrained.  After living without it for a couple of years,
I realize I don't want it at all in this form any longer.
If you must "brand" your code with vcs info, do something at
build time which extracts whatever information you think is 
necessary from the bzr repository and builds it into one 
dynamically constructed file.  Per-file strings just don't
mean what they used to mean under something like cvs/rcs.
It's hard weaning yourself from dubious ideas that are deeply
ingrained, no doubt.