[RFI] bzr-keywords & forward compatibility

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at vernstok.nl
Tue Apr 7 13:01:09 BST 2009


Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Greg Ward wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Ian Clatworthy
>> <ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> 3. What's missing? These can be added later and shouldn't break
>>>   existing keywords, but perhaps looking at additional needs will
>>>   help us tune the names of current keywords? Some things we
>>>   might want to add include:
>>>
>>>   Nick (or Branch-Nick to be more descriptive?)
>>>       
>> Nick is a guy I work with, or someone I knew in high school.  I don't
>> see what either of them have to do with version control.  ;-)
>>     
>
> Me too. I wonder if he's the same guy. :-)
>
> So I've updated bzr-keywords with most of the changes I flagged
> (but Nick isn't there yet). I'll add it under the name of
> Branch-Nick (or Branch-Id?) once someone needs it.
>   
$Branch-Nick$ seems clearer to me, also because $Branch-Id$ will be a
bit confusing to CVS and Subversion users, who might assume it does
something like $Id$ in CVS/Subversion.

Cheers,

Jelmer



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