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On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:05:09PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > As the council has decided in its 2014-10-14 meeting (and confirmed |
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> > again in the 2016-11-13 meeting), CVS headers should be removed after |
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> > the migration to Git. |
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> The 2014-10-14 meeting did NOT specify what CVS headers were in |
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> question, and it was later decided that this was $Header$, not $Id$. |
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> > Until recently, this was blocked by repoman still checking for the |
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> > $Id$ line. The latter is now fixed in the stable repoman version. |
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> > |
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> > Therefore, I am going to remove the remaining CVS headers throughout |
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> > the tree (except for patches, of course) in two days from now. |
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> This was also discussed in August 2015: |
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> Subject: 'Infra plans regarding $Id$ - official answer...' |
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> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/ |
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> d01ce943a9f9404c454c26bdb7efdf0e |
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> $Id$ is used by Git as well, and I was a strong advocate that expansion |
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> of $Id$ should be ENABLED in the rsync exports, because it allowed |
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> tracing what version of a file was actually in use. |
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> In the case of Git, $Id$ expands to the blob hash, which can be traced |
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> to a commit trivially, and several of the council members in the 2015 |
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> thread did agree it was useful in that format (but I see no formal vote |
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> was ever taken). |
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Which can also be generated trivially ( |
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob), |
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which kind of obviates the need for $Id$. |
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