Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2334] Recording INL games

[Alec Habig <habig@suketto.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp>]

Jeffrey Nowakowski writes:
> 
> I've got a couple of CVS questions.  What's the deal with $Id stuff at
> the top of files?  Is it something we are supposed to maintain
> manually?

It updates itself.

/* $Id: $ */

fills itself in upon checkin.

> And is there a way to autogenerate ChangeLog entries from the commit
> messags (I hate typing in things twice)?  I haven't been updating
> ChangeLog.

/* 
 *$Log: $
 */

fills itself in with your commit message.

Some people hat this as the source files grow and grow.  Others find it
useful.  A compromise is to put it at the end of a file so that it's
there if you want it but never in the way.

      Alec

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