Reg : Keyword expansion
Dmitry Nezhevenko
dion at inhex.net
Wed Aug 25 21:16:36 UTC 2010
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:45:18PM +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
> Mark A. Flacy wrote:
> >On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 20:20 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
> >
> >>EXACTLY - your advice has little use for any script language based project !!!
> >
> >Only if you don't know what you are doing, which you appear to be
> >proving with each post.
>
> The whole point is that DISTRIBUTING a project to multiple users
> should not demand that every one of those users installs a DVC
> system. In fact most users would not even know what CVS is ... so
If user doesn't know what is VCS, why he will care about some keywords in
comments of files? User may not even know syntax of these files.
> what is needed in the distribution is some flagging that DOES tag
> the files ( and works from windows as well as linux which is why I'm
> on hg rather than git anyway )
> I'm not missing the point ... the POINT is that since DVC systems
> don't track single files, there is nothing to say which version of a
> file is being deployed in the distribution. You have to go back to
> the repository to find out that data.
You're trying to make RCS/CVS from Mercurial. That's wrong. If you need
CVS, use it.
> but all I am looking for is which version file was included with the
> distribution. And I need to be able to see that simply be looking at
> the file(s).
There is no "file version" in Mercurial. This is CVS terminology. Could
you please provide an example of such "file version" in hg? As about
versioning of tarballs, it's very common practice to tag revision that
goes to archive/customer/end user.
The whole idea of VCS is to help developers/users to deal with
history/versions. In case if user has enough knowledge to read source or
analyze file versions some way, such user probably will be able to get
history from VCS.
--
WBR, Dmitry
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