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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fix for normalization of foreign idents
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:33:21 -0500
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Marcus Comstedt wrote:

> it sounds like much more of a
> hassle to actually use.  Do you have a use case in mind where you have
> the ident attribute on a file but do _not_ want a new ident each time
> you commit a change to the file?

No, I don't use the $Id$ feature at all and if I inherited a codebase
with a bunch of foreign $Id$ tags, I don't know what I'd do. :)  So I
can trust your judgement on this.