Re: RCS keyword expansion

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 12, 2007, 11:34 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710121231410.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710121144001.3682@ds9.cixit.se>

Hi,

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Peter Karlsson wrote:

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> > But don't you see?  When switching branches, this totally breaks down.
> 
> Why would it? If the file is the same on both branches, nothing would 
> happen (it is still the same version), and if the file is different, it 
> gets changed anyway, and a new keyword expansion would take place.

Finding out which commit last changed that file is slow. That's why it breaks down. It is possible, yes. But then I think that you really do not want this. You are just to used to CVS/SVN to see that there is a much better way in git.

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> > No, really, IMHO it is enough to show either the commit name or the 
> > blob name of the file. After all, you are not interested in the date 
> > that this file was last committed, but in the _contents_.
> 
> Yes, but I want it on the lowest addressable unit size, i.e on the file 
> level (I could possibly want to have the last commit for a set of files 
> when I have something that get generated from several sources, but that 
> is rare for a regular website, unless since javascripts and stylesheets 
> etc. are delivered separately).

The lowest addressable unit size is the file level, alright. And $Id$ contains the blob name. IOW it contains a key to retrieve the contents of exactly this version of the file.

Ciao, Dscho