On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:36:16AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > I understood the usefulness of this line to some when we were using CVS > since it expanded into the ebuild revision, date, etc. > > This expansion doesn't take place under git, so now I don't understand > the usefulness of this line. If I have missed something, can someone > fill me in, or if it isn't useful any more can we consider removing it? The following is the official answer of Infra, regarding the $Id$ expansion.
The intent is that the ONLY place the keywords are expanded, will be in the rsync export. FUTURE tense, it's not ready yet. If there is demand (and I think the consensus is actually the OPPOSITE), we could also have it expand on your local checkouts. It expands to the hash of the blob of that file; and from that, you can identify which commits the blob exists in. The primary use case of it is to allow users to easily see what version of a given ebuild they are using. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
