[Privoxy-devel] $Id: and TODO

[Ian Silvester]

Odd that TODO doesn't seem up to date in CVS. Fabian what can you tell us about the file's currency?

I did a bit of research and it seems that $Id$ is just not a Git concept. Tracking the who and when of commits is entirely within the realm of the admin commands and you don't get to print it into the files themselves (other than by writing a macro that does it that is called on commit, which seems fragile).

That said, I'm not sure we should go through and delete them all - we can know that they're no longer being updated and, in the future, might once again be when we move on from Git to whatever is the new hotness in 5 or 10 years ;o)

Ian

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On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, at 19:38, Lee wrote:
> Was TODO maintained in CVS?  I don't see how to build it and the link
> to the latest version needs to be fixed.
> 
> $Id: TODO,v 1.165 2017/05/29 10:40:28 fabiankeil Exp $
> 
> Some Privoxy-related tasks, sorted by the time they
> have been added, not by priority.
> 
> The latest version should be available at:
> http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO
> 
> 
> And a related question about source code timestamps & version numbers:
>  I liked them; is there some way to have GIT bump the version number
> and insert the modification timestamp in the source?
> 
> If not, how about I go thru and remove all the "$Id: xxx" lines since
> it seems likely to be a source of confusion.
> 
> Lee
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