Purpose of BOINC_RCSID_ constants

[asgarciap]

I have seen several files with those constans

const char *BOINC_RCSID_d9f764fd14="$Id$";

What are they purpose, i greped all of them and see they are not used anywhere in the rest of the code.

[AenBleidd]

Looks like it is an old legacy. Please create a pull request that just deletes all these constants. Thanks Best regards, Vitalii Koshura

[davidpanderson]

As described in checkin_notes_2004:

Bruce 24 Nov 2004 UTC
- Added const char RCSID string to all *.c files,
so that 'ident' and 'strings' can identify file version numbers.

I don't know if this mechanism still works, but it's not a good idea to remove stuff without knowing why it's there.

[AenBleidd]

These constants were deleted at least twice. So these are just left-overs that should be (and already) deleted too.
According to the next commit e14e1ca where it is said 'Remove BOINC_RCSID tags from source files, we are doing branching and tagging properly.' made by @romw in 2010 these left-overs are really not necessary anymore