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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CVS-$Id:$ replacement in git?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:12:33 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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.

But this is what I was suggesting...  To change the ways for the better.  
I admit that I was really sneaky about it.

Ciao,
Dscho