When the PHP source code was versioned in Subversion, there was
possible to substitute certain keywords such as $Id$ with revision
number, last change time and author name. Such approach is not used
in Git so this patch removes these outdated artifacts from source
code files.
requests--let's see what I can dig out of the bugtracker for NEWS--
and while crossing the road:
* implemented new zlib API
* fixed up ext/tidy (what was "s&" in zend_parse_parameters() supposed to do?)
Thanks to Jani and Felipe for pioneering.