On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 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. >
Seems like this should be a repoman warning at the very least, assuming we keep them at all. > >> 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. > The problem with this is that it depends on every dev doing something. The original purpose of this was so that people could tell if a file changes without it being revbumped? If so, rather than parsing an sha1 out of the file, why not just hash the file yourself? -- Rich
