Re: [PATCH] Use $Id$ as the ident attribute keyword rather than $ident$ to be consistent with other VCSs

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Andy Parkins wrote:

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I think that bzr uses $Id$; Mercurial has examples hooks for $Id$;
monotone has $Id$ on its wishlist.  I can't think of a good reason not
to stick with the de-facto standard and call ours $Id$ instead of
$ident$.

I very much agree. I wondered why it was named $ident$ in the first
place. Now that I'm not alone, I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in...

My take when I did the $ident$ stuff on this issue was quite the
opposite.  CVS "$Id$" means quite a different thing (pathname,
per-file revision number, date, and status) and it would not be
right to overwrite it with $ident$ which does not record any of
those "context sensitive" information.

I did not think other systems making that mistake was not an
excuse for us to do so, but on the other hand, if the users of
those other systems are happy to lose the information from CVS
then perhaps the users do want $Id$.

Obviously I do not care much about this feature and I have not
look at Andy's patch too deeply yet, but in any case I think the
inverse conversion needs to be modified to match it, if it
hasn't been done so.