From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:40:51 GMT
Subject: Re: suggested feature: someone mails me a blob, git please tell me what it is
Message-ID: <200702172140.54203.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <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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