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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:13:03
Message-Id: 20150813161250.GH25069@vapier
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful? by William Hubbs
1 On 13 Aug 2015 10:36, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > I understood the usefulness of this line to some when we were using CVS
3 > since it expanded into the ebuild revision, date, etc.
4 >
5 > This expansion doesn't take place under git, so now I don't understand
6 > the usefulness of this line. If I have missed something, can someone
7 > fill me in, or if it isn't useful any more can we consider removing it?
8
9 delete it and be done
10 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful? Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>