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From: Ole Reifschneider <tranquility@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CVS headers in ebuilds
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 10:12:59
Message-Id: 20160409101243.GA3564@lightningfox
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: CVS headers in ebuilds by Jonathan Callen
1 On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:30:15AM -0400, Jonathan Callen wrote:
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5 > On 04/04/2016 02:58 AM, Lars Wendler wrote:
6 > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 22:57:42 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> Does anyone still use the CVS $Id$ keywords that are in all
9 > >> ebuilds' headers, or are they being expanded anywhere? Or is
10 > >> there any other reason why they should be kept?
11 > >>
12 > >> In fact, the council had already voted to drop them in its
13 > >> 20141014 meeting:
14 > >>
15 > >> Can we drop CVS headers post-migration? Aye: blueness, creffett
16 > >> (proxy for ulm), dberkholz, dilfridge, radhermit, rich0, williamh
17 > >>
18 > >>
19 > >> Ulrich
20 > >
21 > > Yes, I still use these lines to check for ebuild changes between
22 > > portage and my personal overlay. So please keep this line.
23 > >
24 > > Thanks.
25 > >
26 > > Lars
27 > >
28 >
29 > I do the same (after enabling expansion in .git/info/attributes on
30 > just "*.ebuild", I can even get a quick diff of what changed in
31 > gentoo.git to update my overlay).
32 >
33
34 Sounds cool. Can you please explain in more detail how you do this?
35
36 Ole

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CVS headers in ebuilds Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>