[Project-managers] adding $Id$ to source code

[Kipp Martin]

Hi:

> I wrote an automatic editing script to aid the implementation of Leo's 
> suggestion for most of the files in the CppAD repository; see
> https://projects.coin-or.org/CppAD/browser/trunk/svn_add_id.sh
> 
> This script was written to make it easy to include more cases in the 
> automatic editing.
> Perhaps it will be useful to other project managers who decide to take 
> Leo's suggestion.

Thanks to Brad for doing this. I ran the script and it works very well.

Cheers,


> 
> 
> Stefan Vigerske wrote:
>> Dear project managers,
>>
>> Leo asks me to forward the following to you:
>>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> You may consider adding the token $Id$ to each of your source files in
>> your projects, if you do not already do so. Adding this tag, then
>> setting the property svn:keywords to id, updates the token with
>> something similar to the following:
>>
>> // $Id: osi.i 88 2006-10-23 23:57:50Z leolopes $
>>
>> which includes the most recent version, the person responsible for the
>> change and the date. This is quite useful when going through code,
>> especially with a collaborator, to make sure people are always looking
>> at the same file.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Leo.
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> 
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