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

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting 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
> 

Just use rcs2log, that will make the ChangeLog for you. I personally do not
like the $Log$, as it make for long source files.

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