A.M. wrote: > > On Feb 22, 2007, at 13:00 , Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > > > >One thing that Monotone doesn't do to which we are used to, is > >$Id$-style keyword expansion. The only other problem I see > >currently is > >the long time to get an initial pull. > > Monotone will never support such templating because it relies on SHA > hashing to track the repo history, so changing the repo before the > hashing would mean that monotone would have to track pre- and post- > templated files.
I know :-( My question is, what is the mechanism used to replace it? One thing of note is that we have some files derived from NetBSD, Tcl, zic, and others, and we have $NetBSD$ tags in there (etc) to track the exact file we copied. It would be nice to have a simple mechanism to do that as well. How does Monotone solve this problem? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvherre/ "Cuando mañana llegue pelearemos segun lo que mañana exija" (Mowgli) _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
