From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:05:14 GMT
Subject: Re: RCS keyword expansion
Message-ID: <470F54EA.4000305@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710121144001.3682@ds9.cixit.se>

Peter Karlsson schrieb:
>> If it's not what you want, I suggest rethinking what you want ;-)
>> Otherwise it is scripting time for you.  It's easy enough with git.
> 
> That's what I'm trying to figure out. I assume it would be possible to
> do with some kind of hook that is run on checkout. But I can't figure
> out how to do that.

Read about the 'filter' attribute (clean and smudge filters), e.g. here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html

This is the place to tie a script to checkouts. How the scripts derive the 
information that they put in the checked-out files, is a different matter.

-- Hannes