From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:16:48 GMT
Subject: Re: RCS keyword expansion
Message-ID: <8c5c35580710111216i33ef39e4x46a9050f7f92b959@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710111542420.23849@ds9.cixit.se>

On 10/11/07, Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> I've looked and looked, but cannot figure out how to do RCS/CVS style
> keyword expansion with Git.

If you look at 'man gitattributes' you'll find a description of the
'ident' attribute which is expanded to the SHA1 of the containing file
 during checkout.

There is also a description of the 'export-subst' attribute which can
be used to expand keywords when generating tar/zip files with
'git-archive'. It supports commit SHA1 and date, among others.

Btw: using git-archive means that you don't need a local repository on
the webserver, you only need a proper git installation. Essentially,
you can update your webserver 'checkout' with something like this:

$ git archive --remote=<url> --prefix=somepath/ master | tar -x

--
larsh