{"thread":{"id":"16100","subject":"[PATCH] Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute","startedAt":"2008-10-30T18:14:33Z","lastAt":"2008-10-30T19:30:23Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Jan Krüger","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"94333","messageId":"20081030191433.710aff11@perceptron","threadId":"16100","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute","fromName":"Jan Krüger","fromEmail":"jk@jk.gs","sentAt":"2008-10-30T18:14:33Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-30T18:14:33Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"jk@jk.gs","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1774?v=4"},"body":"The documentation spoke of the attribute being set \"to\" a path; this can\nmistakenly be interpreted as \"the attribute needs to have its value set to\nsome kind of path\". This clarifies things (and also calls the object ID a\nhash rather than a name because that might be confusing too).\n\nSigned-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>\n---\nConfused me and a few other people on IRC the other day.\n\n Documentation/gitattributes.txt |    6 +++---\n 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt\nindex 2694559..b39db6b 100644\n--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt\n@@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ few exceptions.  Even though...\n `ident`\n ^^^^^^^\n \n-When the attribute `ident` is set to a path, git replaces\n-`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by\n-40-character hexadecimal blob object name, followed by a dollar\n+When the attribute `ident` is set for a path, git replaces\n+`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by the\n+40-character hexadecimal blob object hash, followed by a dollar\n sign `$` upon checkout.  Any byte sequence that begins with\n `$Id:` and ends with `$` in the worktree file is replaced\n with `$Id$` upon check-in.\n-- \n1.6.0.3.523.g304d0.dirty\n"},{"id":"94339","messageId":"7vfxmdev8w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"16100","inReplyTo":"20081030191433.710aff11@perceptron","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-10-30T19:30:23Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-30T19:30:23Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"\"Jan Krüger\" <jk@jk.gs> writes:\n\n> The documentation spoke of the attribute being set \"to\" a path; this can\n> mistakenly be interpreted as \"the attribute needs to have its value set to\n> some kind of path\". This clarifies things (and also calls the object ID a\n> hash rather than a name because that might be confusing too).\n\nI'd agree with the first change, but not with the second.  \"object name\"\nhas been the official name of these hexadecimal thingy for a long time\n(see the glossary).\n"}]}