ChunkedInputStream/test.txt

Kelly O'Hair Kelly.Ohair at Sun.COM
Wed Sep 17 12:18:04 PDT 2008



Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:29, Kelly O'Hair <Kelly.Ohair at sun.com> wrote:
>> This binary file has a %[A-Z]% byte pattern in it, and when it gets
>> processed by sccs, those bytes get turned into an SCCS keyword value.
> 
> I'm sure that the SCCS keyword expansion headache-to-benefit
> ratio is at least 10:1.

I agree.

Which is one reason why we decided to not use any Mercurial keyword extensions
to continue this practice.

> 
> One big benefit of mercurialization is that this problem will evaporate.
> Make sure you import the non-keyword-expanded version of every file.
> But y'all probably all already know this from jdk7 mercurialization experience.

Yup. Known issue.

-kto

> 
> Martin



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