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Re: [LUG] Id Lines in code files

 

It's a CVS ID tag AFAIK

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:33:40 +0100, Simon Williams  
<simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> I keep seeing id lines at the start of open source code files- they look
> a bit like this:
>
> <!-- $Id: about_en.html,v 1.2 2005/11/05 12:35:36 aurb Exp $ -->
> # $Id: index.py,v 1.2 2005/11/05 12:43:26 aurb Exp $
>
> What are these called? Are they generated by some editor or packager or
> is this a global standard that authors put in by hand?
>
> Thanks.
> Simon
>

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