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On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:10:30AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> We shouldn't do anything (besides adapting repoman to the $Id$ format) |
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> without some discussion first. However... |
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> Do we really need to have ANY keywords in our files? Keyword |
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> expansion was just a PITA all-around with cvs. Do we really need to |
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> embed them in our git files? |
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> At least git doesn't expand them in the actual repository. |
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> I'm not really a big fan of any kind of in-band signaling. I guess |
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> the one advantage of this is that if you find a file OUTSIDE of a |
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> repository you know where it came from, but how important is that? |
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The expansion is ONLY for the rsync export, so that we can identify the |
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version of the file on a user's system. |
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When previously discussed, that was a strongly requested item, as |
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developers DO sometimes ask users to please test rev 1.xyz of an ebuild. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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