[sr-dev] source code clean up

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 02/01/15 14:20, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> Hello,
>
> here I am proposing some items for removing from the source code, to
> keep it cleaner:
>
> - $Id$ or the other SVN expandable tokens - they are svn specific, some
> of them even included expanded. Typical location is at the beginning of
> the file. They are useless now or very old (when expanded)
>
> - the 'history' section in source code - typical location is after
> license at the beginning of the source code files. Used mainly during
> CVS times, the content is very old (even more than 10 years) and in many
> cases misleading now. If there is something relevant, we can discuss and
> eventually move as comments to functions or parts of the code. We have
> no proper commit logs and git blame is helping to track what is current
ERRATA ^^^ : We have __NOW__ proper commits logs ...

> in the code
>
> - git branches that were merged or very old (no longer suitable for merging)
>
> If there is something else that should be part of this process, just
> name it here.
>
> This is not going to happen quickly (although it would be good) and it
> is addressed here to make the developed aware, when they work on a file
> or have spare time ( :-) ), to consider removing those parts.
>
> I would prefer to be a dedicated commit (can be for many files at once,
> but not across components -- e.g.,  one commit for a module, not mixing
> for many modules or modules+core+libs ...), to be easy to check it
> doesn't break the code.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>

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