[p4] perforce keyword expansion - why not always on?

[Chuck Karish]

At 10:00 AM 8/22/2002 -0700, Karl Elvis MacRae wrote:

>I have a question about perforce keyword expansion.
>
>Why is it not always on as with RCS? It seems an incredibly useful and basic 
>feature, and to have to toggle it on seems silly.

Because the first duty of a source control system is to preserve the data.
It must be possible to defeat any feature that modifies data.


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