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Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2098] Bobs recent changes in the CVS tree



On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:22:14AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> Kurt Siegl wrote:
> > PS: Someone should add a $Log CVS comment into each file so that we
> > may check the version history easier. I did this already for COW.

Please, please, PLEASE do not do this.  The $Log$ entry simply bloats
the top of the file without being all that useful.  The log entries are
available in cvs log, and it's trivial to automatically generate GNU-style
ChangeLog entries from commits.  There are also several front-ends to view
log entries for different versions.

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