Re: Git help for kernel archeology, suppress diffs caused by CVS keyword expansion

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 24, 2007, 11:26 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241223440.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <f84jh8$e27$2@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> [Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org]

Thanks.

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > 
> >> Thanks for working on this. I'd like to see it added to git toolkit. 
> > 
> > I plan to submit it to patchutils instead, since this is not really 
> > dependent on git.
> 
> Could you also add it to contrib/ area, please?

Sure. Once it is really all fleshed out. But I really think that patchutils is a better place. That way, the script also helps the poor souls stuck with Mercurial or Darcs :-)

The really tedious part is the testing, and the verifying. Fortunately, Jon made up for my incapability in both areas, with an incredible patience.

Ciao, Dscho