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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow the ident attribute to include a length specifier
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:53:29 +0100
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On Monday 2007 May 14, Andy Parkins wrote:
> When the ident attribute is found for a path, then git replaces $ident$
> with:
>
>   $ident: df2a1fd3ebce86876721bd7e12ce02ac89c885db $
>
> With this patch, you can put the following in your attribute file:
>
>   somepath ident=10
>
> And get expansions like this:
>
>   $ident: df2a1fd3eb $
>
> There is no change to existing behaviour.  With no parameter, the
> expansion is all 40 hex digits.

Were there any thoughts on this patch?  I think it might have got drowned in 
the noise I made about $ident$ -> $Id$.


Andy
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