From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Fix for normalization of foreign idents Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:46:55 -0700 Message-ID: <7vd3t8zyc0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1282599032-11369-1-git-send-email-marcus@mc.pp.se> <20100823213531.GD2120@burratino> <20100823223321.GE1308@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Marcus Comstedt , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 24 01:47:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OngjY-0008UT-K2 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:47:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753298Ab0HWXrH (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:47:07 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:58995 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752254Ab0HWXrG (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:47:06 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B862ACF70B; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:47:04 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=+7a6mY7xEdGfSeJoINblK1qUx68=; b=Zj453f iEDUl+yetQ/quYi92nKJSvT3VbxC9OQbtuU5Y2Bna/X1knzesFLYJvj0o4hchROy rjsDVmhMOQExkEiGULGf+CTtnmrKUqy+Br+p74iQHxDXPqblsgfCVlBqcIAyZrEf xRXarFa0qFv3bLg1woP3BEC2q87onr73g+MVY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=mZaF1nL8OJq6apL1Lm0eA27w5392bDTp /bCnA2MoSnPWUuNkXyvO0PCqNZ1yhqg3QjNzv60/OSY+T35YTzBphT68US/MqVhL j8CAQxLn8mgTgAv8sH0KRHNhu3hMSsfZ2qmQiXQV/WjnOQuKz07CIxeImbyWRs+t Mi2VqLNUQSo= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C50CF70A; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:47:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.252.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A9E8DCF705; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:46:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20100823223321.GE1308@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon\, 23 Aug 2010 17\:33\:21 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B9BC2A5A-AF10-11DF-B23B-9056EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder writes: > 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. Heh, I know what I would do---the first commit will be to remove them.