>>>>> 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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