I first noticed this using the system git provided in Fedora 21, so I cloned the official git repo, built from source, and it would appear there are even more options that don't work with export-subst in the latest code. I tested this under commit 63a45136a329bab550425c3142db6071434d935e (HEAD, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master). Take, for example, the following script: FILE=Foo.pm DIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/git.XXXXXX) cd $DIR git init echo '*.pm export-subst ident' >> .gitattributes echo '# Last Author : $Author: $Format:%an$ $' > $FILE echo '# Last Date : $Date: $Format:%ai (%ad)% $' >> $FILE echo '# Last Version : $Revision: $Format:%d$ $' >> $FILE echo '# Last Version v2: $Revision: $Format:%D$ $' >> $FILE echo '# Last Commit : $Commit: $Format:%H$ $' >> $FILE echo '# This File : $Id$' >> $FILE echo 'our $VERSION = (qw($Format:%N$))[1];' >> $FILE git add . git commit -a -m "Initial commit." git notes add -f -m '$Release: 0048 $' git tag -f releases/R0048 git archive HEAD $FILE | tar xf - --to-stdout rm $FILE git checkout -- $FILE cat $FILE git log --format='%N' -1 You can tell I'm attempting to recreate CVS keywords (bwahahaa!) for a project that is insisting they need them. I'd be happy to write a bunch of unit tests for export-subst and all PRETTY FORMATS format:<string> options, if that would be desirable. I see the t/ directory, and the t/test-lib.sh stuff looks simple enough (TAP in bash, hmm). Thanks, Derek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html