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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Delanoe Eric <e.delanoe@gea.fr>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Could GIT manage revision headers embedded in code ?
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:11:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0NrTyGYgHeEOWpUH5v0ejKvcKu+Mzd8_scYbvzL4b4zg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <135C7A92C7D64E488B830ADC2970C70132AE6407@SVGEA-EMAIL.gea.fr>

Hi,

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Delanoe Eric <e.delanoe@gea.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We need a great deal of traceability for our source, made of many scripts in interpreted languages, spread in many "independent" modules, as far as can be ;-).
> In particular, somebody troubleshooting a script in production should be able to know exactly the revision or commit ID (or tag label) of a given file, and its location in the GIT source directory tree.
>
> Our old CVS... let's say it was its only advantage... was doing this with keywords embedded in code comments: $Header$, $Id$, $Rev$, $File$ etc... When a file was committed, its $Header$ keyword was expanded into a rich piece of "version" information like '' $Header: /cvsstore/SourcesOracle/Install/COMMUN/CST.sql,v 1.69.2.10 2017/04/14 09:38:48 edelanoe $".
>
> Could this kind of "keyword expansion" feature be added into GIT ?

You can already do it with "smudge" and "clean" filters. Look for
"Keyword Expansion" in:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Attributes

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-02 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-02 11:48 Could GIT manage revision headers embedded in code ? Delanoe Eric
2017-05-02 12:11 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2017-05-02 13:33   ` Delanoe Eric
2017-05-02 15:54 ` Johannes Schindelin

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