Re: RCS keyword expansion

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Oct 12, 2007, 17:51 UTC
Message-ID: <87ejg0fcgw.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <m3y7e8jmbm.fsf@barry_fishman.acm.org>

* Barry Fishman:

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> I changed my editor (Emacs) to convert RCS Ids to timestamps when I
> opened a file for reading.  This would fix old files.  When i wrote out
> files I would update the timestamp before writing them (via emacs's
> timestamp package).  I didn't have to think about it as my RCS Id
> stamped files slowly evolve into my editor stamped ones.  I'm sure I
> could do something similar in VIM, or with a script encapsulating
> another editor.

The downside is that this causes totally unncessary conflicts when merging. Maybe a custom merge handler could deal with that, though.