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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What's the use of the "keywords: " field ? |
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Mon, 17 May 2004 16:59:46 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:11:11PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > What's the use of the "keywords: " field in tla log file ? I always
> > leave it empty, but maybe I'm wrong ?
> Mostly to annoy people and use up a bit of space...
> [You can (should) delete it, you know.]
> I once actually counted the number of non-empty Keywords: headers in Tom's
> archives, and it was like 5 out of 9,283,747 revisions -- of course there
> were 8,987,671 _empty_ Keywords: headers...
> Given that (1) nobody seems to use it, despite the obvious prompting, (2)
you
> can trivially _add_ it to a log if you want it, and (3) a huge percentage
of
> people don't delete the empty header, meaning it ends up in their
patch-logs,
> it seems mildly absurd that it's still inserted by default...
I have big plans for it, actually.
For example, it will interact with ~/.arch-params and Bug Goo very nicely.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, Matthieu Moy, 2004/05/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, Andrew Suffield, 2004/05/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, Miles Bader, 2004/05/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, Matthieu MOY, 2004/05/18
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, Xavier Maillard, 2004/05/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, Stefan Reichör, 2004/05/19
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/19
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, Miles Bader, 2004/05/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, Masatake YAMATO, 2004/05/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?, Matthieu Moy, 2004/05/24
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What's the use of the "keywords: " field ?,
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