Re: git-svn vs. $Id$

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: May 21, 2006, 01:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20060521011204.GA18886@hand.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <446A15F8.3040106@inoi.fi>

Tommi Virtanen <tv@inoi.fi> wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Isn't there some flag to svn to avoid keyword expansion, like "-ko" to 
> > CVS?
> > 
> > Any import script definitely should avoid keyword expansion (and that's 
> > true whether you end up wanting to use keywords or not).
> 
> Well, yes, I agree. But, at least git-svn.txt says this:
> 
> BUGS
> ----
> ...
> svn:keywords can't be ignored in Subversion (at least I don't know of
> a way to ignore them).
> 
> I guess one might be able to reach that information through the svn API.
> 
> Or just propget svn:keywords and sed s/\$Id\(:[^$]*\)\$/$Id$/ all files
> with keywords, for all relevant keywords. Eww.

I'm working on a solution to this (using files in .svn/text-base).

keyword expansion behavior seems inconsistent on some SVN repos and I can't reproduce it on my local repositories, so I think I will have to weaken some integrity checks[1] in git-svn to work around it...

1 - I don't think these integrity checks were ever tripped in the first place.

-- 
Eric Wong