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On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:36:16AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> I understood the usefulness of this line to some when we were using CVS |
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> since it expanded into the ebuild revision, date, etc. |
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> This expansion doesn't take place under git, so now I don't understand |
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> the usefulness of this line. If I have missed something, can someone |
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> fill me in, or if it isn't useful any more can we consider removing it? |
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The following is the official answer of Infra, regarding the $Id$ |
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expansion. |
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The intent is that the ONLY place the keywords are expanded, will be in |
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the rsync export. FUTURE tense, it's not ready yet. |
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If there is demand (and I think the consensus is |
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actually the OPPOSITE), we could also have it expand on your local |
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checkouts. |
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It expands to the hash of the blob of that file; and from that, you can |
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identify which commits the blob exists in. |
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The primary use case of it is to allow users to easily see what version |
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of a given ebuild they are using. |
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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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