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>>>>> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Robin H Johnson wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 09:03:59AM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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>> Last time this came up, a sole example case was mentioned, but it |
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>> might have been buried. |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557386 |
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> Infra left the $Id$ stubs in place for this use case, but did not |
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> turn on global expansion due to the related issue mentioned in the |
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> bug: CVS allows easy individual file control of disabling keyword |
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> expansion (and setting a file as binary which also implicitly |
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> disables keyword expansion). |
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> We'd have to find all of those files and explicitly create |
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> .gitattribute files, per directory, for them. |
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I wonder if the small benefit gained from expanding keywords would be |
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worth this effort. Seems that the feature wasn't missed much in the |
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8 months since the conversion to git. |
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Ulrich |
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