Re: preliminary version control requirements

[Dieter Baron <dillo%KD119105101110.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp@localhost>]

In article <4892488D.2050801%coolfactor.org@localhost> Gavan wrote:
: I don't see a huge amount of value in maintaining this information on a 
: per-file basis if the VCS deals with versioning whole trees. If you want 
: to embed a version number, embed the version number of the whole tree. 
: Let's get rid of per-file RCSIDs if we move away from per-file version 
: numbers.

  One adavantage of per-file RCSIDs is if you copy the file to another
project.  You can then easily tell which version your local copy was
based on, which might also make it easier for us to merge their
changes back into our tree.

                                        yours,
                                        dillo