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

From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@tlen.pl>
Date: Nov 10, 2008, 15:48 UTC
Message-ID: <871vxjoa3j.fsf@erwin.mina86.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811101319570.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> I would like the "$Id$" sequences to be updated automatically after a 
>> commit (ie. without the need to check out).  (Besides I would prefer 
>> $Date$ more but I can live with $Id$ I guess ;) ).

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> No, you don't.
>
> At least most likely you do not want that behavior.  Typically, you have 
> the $Id$ stuff in released versions to indicate what revision that version 
> came from even if the files are no longer in a Git repository.
>
> And you can have that without ever committing anything in-between, by 
> using the export-subst attributes with git-archive.  Have a look at 
> Documentation/gitattributes.txt (I agree it is underdocumented in 
> git-archive.txt).

The thing is that for some repositories I don't distinguish anything like a "release version" of files. For instance, I have a repository with my configuration files, and I want to be able to do

  scp emacs system-where-git-is-not-installed:.emacs

or attaching the file in an email without worrying about anything. Instead, what you're describing would force me to do some voodoo magic priory to sending the file.

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