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

[Brad Bell]

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.


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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