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Re: suggested feature: someone mails me a blob, git please tell me what it is

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APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 17, 2007, 21:40 UTC
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<200702172140.54203.andyparkins@gmail.com>
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<20070217061016.GA27813@spearce.org>
On Saturday 2007, February 17, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Rather than embedding something like "$Id$" on a per-file basis
> use the output of git-describe in your build process to insert the

Actually this isn't entirely enough. The /only/ thing I miss from subversion is $Id$; but not in source files - that's easily solved with a bit of git-describe magic in the Makefile - no, I miss embedding it inkscape generated .svg files, so that my title block on diagrams gets automatically assigned a version code.

Q: How lazy am I?  A: I can't be bothered to say... 
Andy
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Message 6 of 6 in “suggested feature: someone mails me a blob, git please tell me what it is”
  1. Mike ColemanFeb 16, 2007
  2. Nicolas PitreFeb 16, 2007
  3. Matthieu MoyFeb 16, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsFeb 16, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceFeb 17, 2007
  6. Andy ParkinsFeb 17, 2007

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