I’ve seen it everywhere. In documentation, web sites, help screens, you name it.
Why?
Should I use it too?
How?
I’ve seen it everywhere. In documentation, web sites, help screens, you name it. Why?
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I’ve seen it everywhere. In documentation, web sites, help screens, you name it.
Why?
Should I use it too?
How?
That is probably an expanded version of ‘$Id$’, which I think has its origins with the RCS version control system, and has been inherited or implemented in many others, not least CVS and SVN.
Basically, you stick ‘$Id$’ into your source code somewhere, and the version control system expands it to an identity string containing the current revision on every checkout.
Then, when looking at source code you can remind yourself which revision or branch the source code has come from.
Personally I do not find it that useful.
Here is the CVS documentation for keyword substitution: http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.6/cvs_12.html
Note that $Id$ is one of many such strings that can be used.