Re: [PATCH] Optional shrinking of RCS keywords in git-p4
Hello,
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> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> To: Dhruva Krishnamurthy <dhruva@ymail.com>
> Cc: GIT SCM <git@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Monday, 15 September, 2008 11:47:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optional shrinking of RCS keywords in git-p4
>
> Dhruva Krishnamurthy writes:
>
> > Modifying RCS keywords prevents submitting to p4 from git due to missing
> hunks.
>
> Hmm. How are "missing hunks" caused? Do you mean:
>
> - the substituted values from the expanded keywords are stripped out by
> default (with kwstrip=True) when you check out from p4;
>
> - when you submit your changes back, p4 side expects you to send the file
> with keywords just as it originally expanded;
>
> and this causes the contents mismatch, leading p4 to reject your change?
Yes (you got my point ;), I have quite often stumbled in conveying things in a crisp manner (on going learning process)
> The patch itself looks fine; I just wanted to make sure commit log
> explains what was fixed.
-dhruva
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