From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:23:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Using Format/export-subst Howto.
Message-ID: <7vfw6k2t8w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1347656962.3998.140661128069097.6D9BE3C4@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> you need to "rm file && git checkout file"). If the user has to update
> $Id$ to match the current sha1
> (by remembering to do a more forceful checkout than checkout -f) then
> one half of that feature is useless. 

As if there is any value in "$Id$" _feature_.  It's a checkbox item,
nothing more ;-).