Dear Kevin!
Kevin Tomasek schrieb:
> svn has the $author, $rev, $date, ... but no $log,
$comment or
> equivalent. as svn already has the plumbing to do
this, as verified by
> these other keyword substitutions, why is there not one
for the comment?
In many cases it is better to have no information instead of
out-dated
or wrong information.
Although on the first glance Subversion and CVS seem to be
similar they
aren't. Subversion is a kind of successor of CVS but it is
definitely
*NOT* an updated version of CVS which has to stay
compatible.
An automatically generated log message may contain too much
or unrelated
information about a commit.
And what do you want to be done if you do (in CVS terms)
"branching" or
"tagging"? Those are simple and cheap(!) copy
operations on the
repository. Only meta-data will be modified but not the file
contents
itself. Creating a log entry would cause changes probably to
thousands
or millions of files; and dynamic log expansion during
check-out or
update has the disadvantage that specific entries can't be
removed.
With best regards
Andreas Schweigstill
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