Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] $Id$ and git
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:34:00 -0800
On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It seems that putting $Id$ in files stored in Git is pointless and discouraged.
> 
> Should we remove $Id$ from all the files (and remove the check from checkAPIs)?

Denis Ovsienko recently got around to removing them from libpcap and tcpdump (which have used Git for the past few years).  I'm not sure there's any point in having the IDs in the files, as Git won't expand them, and thus they don't signify anything.