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Re: git-cvsexportcommit keyword mismatch issue

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 16, 2008, 10:31 UTC
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Hi,
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
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> So what I'm hoping is that this lengthy discourse of mine will convince 
> someone to add code to git-cvsexportcommit that causes the patch 
> creation and application stuff inside it to ignore keyword expansion 
> mismatches (on files which do not have -kb on in CVS), perhaps by simply 
> contracting keywords on all files/patches from both CVS/git at an early 
> stage.

I doubt that this is going to happen. Obviously, it has been nonbody's itch _enough_ to scratch it.

I see your problem, but unless you start hacking, I do not see it being solved anytime soon.

Ciao, Dscho

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