On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 03:59:37PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > The intent is that the ONLY place the keywords are expanded, will be in
> > the rsync export. FUTURE tense, it's not ready yet.
> Will that include any case where the string "$Id$" appears in a patch file?
Those should be ripped out with extreme prejudice, ditto other
identifiers.

I'm thinking of having an explicit whitelist for expansion, but need to
figure out more consistency for some parts to do it.

> That is the main source of problems here.
> 
> Really, anytime what the dev tests and commits is different from what
> the users see is a potential source of problems.
If you want that, then you can expand it on your local systems.

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