From: Bruce Korb Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:52:11 GMT Subject: ident pattern match is incorrect Message-ID: <668c430c0910110952p3abe2d1cl82c2d979f12e5a2f@mail.gmail.com> The git attribute "ident" fails here: sed '2,/and the template file/d /\$Id:/d /Last template edit:/d' getopt-test_${testname}.c The pattern match for ident should be (shell syntax): $'\$Id(:[^$\n]+\$|\$)' In other words, it is not a multi-line pattern. I was looking for a bugzilla entry here: http://git-scm.com/ but I did not see a bug reporting method.