From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: suggested feature: someone mails me a blob, git please tell me what it is Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:40:51 +0000 Message-ID: <200702172140.54203.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <3c6c07c20702160823j316c52f4pe4cf5ca8a882e194@mail.gmail.com> <20070217061016.GA27813@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Mike Coleman To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 17 22:44:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HIXLd-00041Q-Eg for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:44:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933011AbXBQVnw (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:43:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933016AbXBQVnw (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:43:52 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:60716 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933011AbXBQVnv (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:43:51 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so402835uga for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:43:50 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=mwW4asuZdrU7XqDLZvL2KBRiiQRXD0p5tOkbkTFpvwm4SVKzmj1WCDZMmv3wg4tDbs93d33ZVI7tkluWOARVKvV/QEolzxYJQYmtMeAUQEMtAGvtKmzuu+PVivORYCSZUyjdy/F7DQ49fOolC+2EE6P/wh91J+kEflBBiAOuJ7E= Received: by 10.66.244.11 with SMTP id r11mr4756620ugh.1171748630444; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:43:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from grissom.internal.parkins.org.uk ( [84.201.153.164]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 32sm6408754ugf.2007.02.17.13.43.46; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:43:46 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <20070217061016.GA27813@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Saturday 2007, February 17, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Rather than embedding something like "$Id$" on a per-file basis > use the output of git-describe in your build process to insert the Actually this isn't entirely enough. The /only/ thing I miss from subversion is $Id$; but not in source files - that's easily solved with a bit of git-describe magic in the Makefile - no, I miss embedding it inkscape generated .svg files, so that my title block on diagrams gets automatically assigned a version code. Q: How lazy am I? A: I can't be bothered to say... Andy -- Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE andyparkins@gmail.com