Just in case you're interested in this topic: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2006/10/9/223932 http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/KeywordPlan
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 30, 2009, at 07:50, 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. > > Wonderful. So they knowingly distribute a client that does not conform to > the client/server agreement. > > If we care enough to prevent these malformed commits from getting into our > repository, we can write a pre-commit hook to prevent them. > > >> By the way, I also do not find $id$ is so useful. I just use it >> because MacPorts Guide recommends it. > > Thank you for abiding by the guideline. The $Id$ keyword has been useful to > me many times already, in looking at modified portfiles submitted in Trac > tickets, to determine what revision of the original portfile the new one was > based on. > > _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
