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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Infra plans regarding $Id$ - official answer...
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:28:41
Message-Id: robbat2-20150813T222729-588185996Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Infra plans regarding $Id$ - official answer... by Rich Freeman
1 On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 03:59:37PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
3 > > The intent is that the ONLY place the keywords are expanded, will be in
4 > > the rsync export. FUTURE tense, it's not ready yet.
5 > Will that include any case where the string "$Id$" appears in a patch file?
6 Those should be ripped out with extreme prejudice, ditto other
7 identifiers.
8
9 I'm thinking of having an explicit whitelist for expansion, but need to
10 figure out more consistency for some parts to do it.
11
12 > That is the main source of problems here.
13 >
14 > Really, anytime what the dev tests and commits is different from what
15 > the users see is a potential source of problems.
16 If you want that, then you can expand it on your local systems.
17
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19 Robin Hugh Johnson
20 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead
21 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
22 GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85

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