Re: Something like $Id$, $Revision$ or $Date$?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 10, 2008, 20:32 UTC
Message-ID: <200811102132.05472.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200811102124.59973.fg@one2team.com>

Dnia poniedziałek 10. listopada 2008 21:24, Francis Galiegue napisał:

> Le Monday 10 November 2008 21:17:29 Jakub Narebski, vous avez écrit :

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> > Well, _some_ command has to be invoked to expand keywords. "git add"
> > doesn't do that (perhaps it should?), so you need to use checkout.
> >
> 
> If "git add" aims to do that, you'd have to be very, VERY careful, not to 
> substitute in the wrong place to start with, not to attempt substitution in 
> binary files...
> 
> And this would have a sizeable cost, imho. If you really want to do this, 
> isn't there a hook somewhere that can do that for you, instead of modifying 
> git add directly?

If I remember correctly there was idea to add 'pre-add' or 'post-add' hook...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland