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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CVS-$Id:$ replacement in git?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:33:55 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

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'.

Hth,
Dscho