From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow the ident attribute to include a length specifier Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:29:54 +0100 Message-ID: <200705141429.58412.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200705141405.29550.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 14 15:30:39 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 1HnadK-0004O6-GO for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 15:30:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754372AbXENNaG (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 09:30:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754439AbXENNaG (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 09:30:06 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.186]:11184 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754372AbXENNaD (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 09:30:03 -0400 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w1so1121530mue for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 06:30:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Q2CK6wCl/rKke7R5tWehaQpgW+HUtw8Y4IIuhjIuvRHr9jc4B5TonqbCYDP5jfRw4XlPKjyGUuxZzd1/ghWwrJ7JJ6vaFDepqp/9ULsc31VjUtJB698m51bsN7gPZyiUVpk2GPIuVP5KrShXVYMebiX3xoMHivFO2PGz98xr5dQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=TB15+N+Pyw6SQ325bMB4w4QxnlK9AS9w+JOps5LoEuv6Wqly5gxuZg6NolEV0VUsR4OvadN/m98LLXYazU/Uyst3DUOqkGfdnB5DqGfj3Ia2MvaymZAzwyLGqPZhtGgjHW0MARrgMwJbdCy05qevcQ7aJBaanCejnyCrZznxV5g= Received: by 10.82.162.14 with SMTP id k14mr1703509bue.1179149401956; Mon, 14 May 2007 06:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id c25sm15575595ika.2007.05.14.06.30.00; Mon, 14 May 2007 06:30:00 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <200705141405.29550.andyparkins@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Monday 2007 May 14, Andy Parkins wrote: > When the ident attribute is found for a path, then git replaces $ident$ > with: > > $ident: df2a1fd3ebce86876721bd7e12ce02ac89c885db $ Is it too late to request a change to this? Make the field $Id$. $Id$ is present already in SVN and CVS; it would mean that people converting their existing repositories won't have to make any changes to the source files should they want to make use of the ident attribute. Given that it's a feature that's meant to calm those very people, it seems obtuse to make them edit every file just to make use of it. I think that bzr uses $Id$; Mercurial has examples for $Id$; monotone has $Id$ on its wishlist. I can't think of a good reason not to stick with the de-facto standard and call ours $Id$ instead of $ident$. (I accept that this doesn't help those using $Author$, $Rev$, etc, but it's better than nothing) Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com