From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:25:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Something like $Id$, $Revision$ or $Date$?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811101319570.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <87hc6gjs7v.fsf@erwin.mina86.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:

> I would like the "$Id$" sequences to be updated automatically after a 
> commit (ie. without the need to check out).  (Besides I would prefer 
> $Date$ more but I can live with $Id$ I guess ;) ).

No, you don't.

At least most likely you do not want that behavior.  Typically, you have 
the $Id$ stuff in released versions to indicate what revision that version 
came from even if the files are no longer in a Git repository.

And you can have that without ever committing anything in-between, by 
using the export-subst attributes with git-archive.  Have a look at 
Documentation/gitattributes.txt (I agree it is underdocumented in 
git-archive.txt).

If that is not your use case, then it may be wise to let us Git people 
know what you _actually_ want (i.e. instead of asking for a specific 
solution, you could tell us what your problem is).

Ciao,
Dscho