From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:53:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow the ident attribute to include a length specifier
Message-ID: <200705171453.32093.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200705141405.29550.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Monday 2007 May 14, Andy Parkins wrote:
> When the ident attribute is found for a path, then git replaces $ident$
> with:
>
>   $ident: df2a1fd3ebce86876721bd7e12ce02ac89c885db $
>
> With this patch, you can put the following in your attribute file:
>
>   somepath ident=10
>
> And get expansions like this:
>
>   $ident: df2a1fd3eb $
>
> There is no change to existing behaviour.  With no parameter, the
> expansion is all 40 hex digits.

Were there any thoughts on this patch?  I think it might have got drowned in 
the noise I made about $ident$ -> $Id$.


Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
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