On 2009-05-30 14:50, Akira Kitada wrote: > It seems Git and Mercurial just think keyword substitutions are't so > useful, and even it hurts, maybe. > So if there were a report on that, I wonder it will be fixed. > By the way, I also do not find $id$ is so useful. I just use it > because MacPorts Guide recommends it.
It can be useful to make sure that someone is really using the latest or a specific Portfile. Portfiles may be changed without incrementing the revision. So it is good to have another identifier in the file than just version/revision/epoch. For example, this can be helpful some times: $ port cat <portname> | head -n1 Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
