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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Andreas Hildebrandt <anhi@bioinf.uni-sb.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVS-$Id:$ replacement in git?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:37:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8x7r1wyy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708311732580.28586@racer.site> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:33:55 +0100 (BST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Andreas Hildebrandt wrote:
>
>> But unfortunately, we internally rely heavily on the $Id:$ - expansion 
>> of CVS, that is the ability to have a line like
>> 
>> $Id:$
>> 
>> in the source file expanded to something like
>> 
>> $Id: HINFile.C,v 1.64 2005/02/09 13:02:41 oliver Exp $
>> 
>> The information we want to store in the file would be something like the 
>> SHA1 of the last commit that touched that file, the date when it 
>> happened and the person who commited it.
>
> Please see Documentation/gitattributes.txt, look for 'ident'.

Please do _not_ see that.  ident is about blob object name and
does not have anything to do with the commit, pathname,
committer, nor date, and this is deliberately so.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-31 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-31 15:03 CVS-$Id:$ replacement in git? Andreas Hildebrandt
2007-08-31 16:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-31 16:37   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-08-31 16:58     ` Rogan Dawes
2007-08-31 17:12     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-31 18:45       ` Junio C Hamano

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