From: Rogan Dawes <discard@dawes.za.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:58:50 GMT
Subject: Re: CVS-$Id:$ replacement in git?
Message-ID: <46D848CA.3060707@dawes.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v8x7r1wyy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Andreas Hildebrandt wrote:
>>
>>> But unfortunately, we internally rely heavily on the $Id:$ - expansion 
>>> of CVS, that is the ability to have a line like
>>>
>>> $Id:$
>>>
>>> in the source file expanded to something like
>>>
>>> $Id: HINFile.C,v 1.64 2005/02/09 13:02:41 oliver Exp $
>>>
>>> The information we want to store in the file would be something like the 
>>> SHA1 of the last commit that touched that file, the date when it 
>>> happened and the person who commited it.
>> Please see Documentation/gitattributes.txt, look for 'ident'.
> 
> Please do _not_ see that.  ident is about blob object name and
> does not have anything to do with the commit, pathname,
> committer, nor date, and this is deliberately so.
> 

For more details see this thread:

<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44750>

Rogan