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It is inappropriate for a comment to hold information better held in a different kind of system such as your source code control system, your issue tracking system, or any other record-keeping system. Change histories, for example, just clutter up source files with volumes of historical and uninteresting text. In general, meta-data such as authors, last- modified-date, SPR number, and so on should not appear in comments. Comments should be reserved for technical notes about the code and design.
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Building a project should be a single trivial operation. You should not have to check many little pieces out from source code control. You should not need a sequence of arcane com- mands or context dependent scripts in order to build the individual elements. You should not have to search near and far for all the various little extra JARs, XML files, and other artifacts that the system requires. You should be able to check out the system with one simple command and then issue one other simple command to build it.
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