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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 17:27:22
Message-Id: 20150813192650.2d808f69.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful? by Ulrich Mueller
1 Dnia 2015-08-13, o godz. 19:13:06
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > >>>>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, Rich Freeman wrote:
5 >
6 > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
7 > >> delete it and be done
8 >
9 > +1
10 >
11 > > When I asked a few days ago the arugment was made that it will be
12 > > expanded when the ebuilds hit rsync, and then users can reference
13 > > these when submitting bugs so that devs know what revision they're
14 > > using/etc. It was stated that this was a highly-requested feature.
15 >
16 > If this is "a highly-requested feature" then some discussion or other
17 > reference to it should exist in mailing lists. I can neither remember
18 > nor can I find such a discussion.
19 >
20 > So, could someone please provide a pointer to when and where keeping
21 > the $Id$ line was requested?
22
23 Just to be clear, Infra did it and replaced all $Header$ with $Id$.
24 Removing it right now without discussion with them would be wrong.
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28 Michał Górny
29 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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