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From: "Piotr Jaroszyński" <peper@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:50:14
Message-Id: 200704201445.45731.peper@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds by Mike Frysinger
1 On Friday 20 of April 2007 14:22:42 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > does anyone actually find this useful ? i think ive used the value in
3 > there like once (when in reality a `md5sum` would have worked just as well)
4 > ... otherwise, from my perspective:
5 > - it causes annoying bogus hunks in diffs
6 > - not uncommon for people to contact me as the maintainer because i'm in
7 > that - wastes space (well, probably not a strong argument due to bytes vs
8 > blocks) - for mostly green users, it's confusing and they get it wrong
9
10 ++
11 and it's a PITA for git(we should eventually switch to something sane, right?)
12 and our commit system which must regenerate the Manifest only after commit so
13 let's kill it.
14
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16 Best Regards,
17 Piotr Jaroszyński
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