patchRe: [PATCH] Optional shrinking of RCS keywords in git-p4

> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> To: Dhruva Krishnamurthy <dhruva@ymail.com>
> Cc: GIT SCM <git@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Monday, 15 September, 2008 11:47:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optional shrinking of RCS keywords in git-p4
> 
> Dhruva Krishnamurthy writes:
> 
> > Modifying RCS keywords prevents submitting to p4 from git due to missing 
> hunks.
> 
> Hmm.  How are "missing hunks" caused?  Do you mean:
> 
> - the substituted values from the expanded keywords are stripped out by
>    default (with kwstrip=True) when you check out from p4;
> 
> - when you submit your changes back, p4 side expects you to send the file
>    with keywords just as it originally expanded;
> 
> and this causes the contents mismatch, leading p4 to reject your change?