On Tue 27 Oct 2009 04:39 +0200, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > Hello, > > The $Id$ keyword came up while talking with Angel and I realized that > the svn:keywords property doesn't get set on PKGBUILD for new > packages, and thus $Id$ doesn't get updated on commit. I believe we > should fix this, as this information is useful when determining when > a PKGBUILD was last modified and by whom. > > May I suggest we do the following: > > 1) Edit the "Adding a package" section [1] of the packaging > instructions in the DeveloperWiki to include this step. (Adding `svn > propset svn:keywords "Id" new-package/trunk/PKGBUILD' below the > $EDITOR line perhaps?) > 2) Add this property to all packages (this has been done once before > by Aaron, if I remember correctly). > > What's your view on this? I don't see why we need to taint the source files with these ID tags. Isn't SVN enough to give us information about our revision history?
