Re: RCS keyword expansion

[Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>]

Johannes Schindelin:

> The problem is this: for efficiency, git does not change files which have 
> not changes between the last version checked out (whatever that is) and 
> the current version.
>
> This seems counterintuitive to people coming from SVN/CVS: they expect
> _every_ file to be touched when checking out.

No? That would just be strange. Only the files that are actually changed 
should be updated, no others. A $Date$ or $Id$ will show the last 
time/commit that specific file was changed, not the latest global state (I 
guess the fact that most modern VCSs have global state makes this a bit more 
difficult to achieve, in RCS/CVS/PVCS and others the change history is local 
to a file and thus it is trivial to find the large change for that 
particular file).

> As Randal already suggested: if you need something like this, you better 
> have a build procedure which replaced $Date$ _at a given time_ (make 
> install) with the current date.

But that's not what I want. Then my build procedure would need to do a "git 
status", or whatever you use to get the last commit information about a 
file, on each file that is changed and is to be installed. It would be a lot 
easier if that was done already on checkout through some kind of hook.

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