From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:33:55 GMT
Subject: Re: CVS-$Id:$ replacement in git?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708311732580.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46D82DC3.2030203@bioinf.uni-sb.de>

Hi,

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Andreas Hildebrandt wrote:

> But unfortunately, we internally rely heavily on the $Id:$ - expansion 
> of CVS, that is the ability to have a line like
> 
> $Id:$
> 
> in the source file expanded to something like
> 
> $Id: HINFile.C,v 1.64 2005/02/09 13:02:41 oliver Exp $
> 
> The information we want to store in the file would be something like the 
> SHA1 of the last commit that touched that file, the date when it 
> happened and the person who commited it.

Please see Documentation/gitattributes.txt, look for 'ident'.

Hth,
Dscho