Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:35:57PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> For that reason I'd pretty much prefer to keep the CVS Header in place,
> unless there is a very good reason to remove it.
As I wrote in the other thread, my reason for asking is that it's one of
the things that doesn't have clear mapping in the Git world. As a side
benefit, getting rid of it also makes the double-commit mess go away.

For your use case, it should be possible to just ask Git for updates to
the given directory, and apply those to your own tree.

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