Should we use SVN keyword expansion? (was Re: [xwiki-dev] [Proposal] Subversion configuration)

On Mar 10, 2007, at 12:52 AM, Artem Melentyev wrote: To expand svn keywords in source files (especially the "@version $Id: $" part). Why do we need this? To be honest I'm not sure. I've always done and never questioned it so I guess now is the right time to do so... :) Pros I can think of: - it allows us to distribute sources and if someone modifies it we can know what version of the source they're using Cons I can think of: - more work, developers need to have keyword expansion set in their subversion config file (although we would need subversion config anyway for eol, mimetypes, etc) - for developers, duplicates the information in SVN. It's mostly possibly interesting for users and even then it's not sure Note: in Svn the files are stored in the repo without the expansion; it's only on checkout that the expansion happens. Thus after more thought, I'm more tempted to say we don't need them and that we should remove all the @version I've added here and then (I'll do it of course should we agree to not use keyword expansion). Thanks -Vincent