Re: [jira] Resolved: (SHINDIG-78) Add sample svn:props and svn:ignore sample files + script to set values in existent project files

[Santiago Gala <sa...@gmail.com>]

El dom, 02-03-2008 a las 23:04 -0800, Paul Lindner (JIRA) escribió:
> [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-78?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
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> Paul Lindner resolved SHINDIG-78.
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>     Resolution: Fixed
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> I couldn't find any ASF discussion pro nor con for various keywords settings.  The search did turn up a number of projects that do use standardized subversion configs to auto-set props, and those did have keywords with even more values than we are currently setting.
> 

My question would be is the keywords are used. It does not matter if a
random, picked up the net and copied around sets up auto-set keyword
properties. If those properties are not expanded because there are no
anchors for them in the real files, which is the case here. Just two
files in the whole codebase got expanded, and those were imported with
their keywords.

I now that in most of jakarta keywords were "erradicated" sometime
before subversion arrived. They tend to pollute diffs and cause bogus
conflicts when used, and this is the reason why they are not used. I
seem to recall 2001 or 2002 when I last saw (cvs) keywords around.

In any case, your changes showed me how to resolve conflicts in the
git-svn scenario, and this is helpful in a sense. I still have a patch
to remove all keyword setting, which I think is helpful even if it is
only because it removes lines of the project, lines that are not being
used now.

> So marking this resolved for now, If there are compelling reasons to change this we'll reopen.
> 

I don't think there are compelling reasons for treating it one way or
another. I tend to run from generated complexity, and having a script
injecting complexity in the code base looked bad to me. But, in any
case, it is bike-shedding.

Regards
Santiago



> Paul
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> > Add sample svn:props and svn:ignore sample files + script to set values in existent project files
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> >                 Key: SHINDIG-78
> >                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-78
> >             Project: Shindig
> >          Issue Type: Bug
> >            Reporter: Luciano Resende
> >            Assignee: Brian McCallister
> >         Attachments: lresende.shindig-78.patch
> >
> >
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