On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 09:03:59AM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 4 April 2016 at 08:57, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Does anyone still use the CVS $Id$ keywords that are in all ebuilds' > > headers, or are they being expanded anywhere? Or is there any other > > reason why they should be kept? > Last time this came up, a sole example case was mentioned, but it > might have been buried. > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557386 Infra left the $Id$ stubs in place for this use case, but did not turn on global expansion due to the related issue mentioned in the bug: CVS allows easy individual file control of disabling keyword expansion (and setting a file as binary which also implicitly disables keyword expansion). We'd have to find all of those files and explicitly create .gitattribute files, per directory, for them.
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