iso-8859-1 annotation '-cim' in source code - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Steve Lau
Subject iso-8859-1 annotation '-cim' in source code
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Msg-id 071D3911-B680-4C89-B40B-29531F25F7ED@outlook.com
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Hi, Postgres hackers!

While reading the source code, I noticed comments like "-cim 9/10/89". I think this might be an annotation by a developer to indicate the commit time, but from the commit history (using git), they does not seem to match.

Specifically:

  1. What does “cim” mean here?
  2. Are these annotations still used in modern code practices within the PostgreSQL project, or have they been replaced by version control commit histories? I guess they are not used anymore as there are only 11 annotations in the source code.

I appreciate any information or historical context you can provide regarding these annotations.

Thank you!

Best regards, Steve Lau.

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