Reg : Keyword expansion

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 06:05 -0700, Petchimuthu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>         Can u tell me some guidelines about keyword ( $Id:$ ) expansion in
> mercurial? 

My guideline is: don't use keywords. Keywords are a bad idea that we'd
really like to leave in the 80s. This is why keywords is an extension
and intentionally left out of Mercurial's core.

In fact, you'll note that Git and Bzr -also- intentionally left this
feature out. That's three modern, independently designed systems that
all thought keywords were a bad idea.

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