>>>>> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Robin H Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 09:03:59AM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: >> 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. I wonder if the small benefit gained from expanding keywords would be worth this effort. Seems that the feature wasn't missed much in the 8 months since the conversion to git. Ulrich
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