From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Cc: Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Confused about "ident" filter
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:27:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3skxiqmfr.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48076059.4040503@gnu.org>
Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:
> Peter Karlsson wrote:
> > I tried doing "git checkout test.perl", I tried "git clone" to get a new
> > copy of the repository, but still it showed only "$Id$".
>
> In fact I'm a little confused too. The only way I found to expand
> "$Id$" consistently was "rm test.perl; git checkout test.perl", or "rm
> test.perl; git reset --hard HEAD".
I think that "git checkout -f test.perl" should work, forcing git to
replace existing file.
As to clone problem: it might be chicken and egg problem, with `ident`
filter needing .gitattribites in working directory during checkout
phase (currently there is no way to use gitattributes from a tree in
repository), and checkout writing this file.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-19 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-17 7:15 Confused about "ident" filter Peter Karlsson
2008-04-17 14:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-19 8:27 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
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