Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Git Migration: go-live!

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:10:30AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> We shouldn't do anything (besides adapting repoman to the $Id$ format)
> without some discussion first.  However...
> 
> Do we really need to have ANY keywords in our files?  Keyword
> expansion was just a PITA all-around with cvs.  Do we really need to
> embed them in our git files?
> 
> At least git doesn't expand them in the actual repository.
> 
> I'm not really a big fan of any kind of in-band signaling.  I guess
> the one advantage of this is that if you find a file OUTSIDE of a
> repository you know where it came from, but how important is that?
The expansion is ONLY for the rsync export, so that we can identify the
version of the file on a user's system.

When previously discussed, that was a strongly requested item, as
developers DO sometimes ask users to please test rev 1.xyz of an ebuild.

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