From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:21:03 GMT
Subject: Re: RCS keyword expansion
Message-ID: <20071011192103.GD2804@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0710111953460.7441@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>

Peter Karlsson, Thu, Oct 11, 2007 19:55:05 +0200:
> >That's not a job for a source code manager to do.  It's a job for your 
> >build/install tool.
> 
> Since there is no build step involved (my web site is just a CVS checkout 
> at the moment), it's a job for the checkout step. I'd really want to avoid 
> having a separate copy of the web site just so that I can do a "make 
> install".

That's confusing. If your web site is just a checkout, what is the
"make install" for? If it is a repo, you have the version information
anyway, and at all times.

And if this extra step is indeed present, why can't the "make install"
just save the HEAD somewhere for later reference?

> That would sort of negate the savings in disk space I hope seeing 
> by moving from CVS to Git.

You'll find you have plenty of savings for anything.