Re: [lwip-users] Lots of RAM

[Frédéric BERNON]

I mainly thought to $date$ and $revision$  ($log$ is too "intrusive") at the 
end of the first block of comment (I did a little test on inet6.c for 
$date$).
I see that useful when you got two file printed on paper, and you want to 
know where is the last one (to mark some notes or others).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Larmour" <address@hidden>
To: "Frédéric BERNON" <address@hidden>; "Mailing list for lwIP 
users" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [lwip-users] Lots of RAM


> Frédéric BERNON wrote:
> > > 1. When you change the code in a module, could you
> > >    please also make a comment about it in the modules head.
> > >    At least the date of change. As it is now there is no
> > >    way to tell which module is the latest.
> >
> >
> > I just did a little test with CVS keywords. This feature is enable on 
> > Savannah CVS. So, perhaps it could be a solution? Developers, your point 
> > of view?
>
> I don't like having revision history in files as it tends to cause false 
> differences when doing 'diff's of trees. Just my one opinion.
>
> If you're using CVS, then all the tracking is done for you anyway. If you 
> don't have that, you are presumably using tarballs, and forgotten which 
> tarball you got the files from, which seems like it's easier to fix for 
> the user than us.
>
> Jifl
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