[Privoxy-devel] $Id: and TODO

[Lee]

On 7/2/18, Ian Silvester <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Odd that TODO doesn't seem up to date in CVS. Fabian what can you tell us
> about the file's currency?

What needs updating in TODO is the link to the current file as well as
the FAQ references that should be
  https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob_plain;f=TODO;hb=HEAD

> 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).

^shrug^ probably no more fragile that whatever cvs did

> That said, I'm not sure we should go through and delete them all

most already were deleted - see
  https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ca53f92bc634c20fed90f338ac41561f87b834c

Lee


> 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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