Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Andy Parkins wrote: >> I think that bzr uses $Id$; Mercurial has examples hooks for $Id$; >> monotone has $Id$ on its wishlist. I can't think of a good reason not >> to stick with the de-facto standard and call ours $Id$ instead of >> $ident$. > > I very much agree. I wondered why it was named $ident$ in the first > place. Now that I'm not alone, I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in... My take when I did the $ident$ stuff on this issue was quite the opposite. CVS "$Id$" means quite a different thing (pathname, per-file revision number, date, and status) and it would not be right to overwrite it with $ident$ which does not record any of those "context sensitive" information. I did not think other systems making that mistake was not an excuse for us to do so, but on the other hand, if the users of those other systems are happy to lose the information from CVS then perhaps the users do want $Id$. Obviously I do not care much about this feature and I have not look at Andy's patch too deeply yet, but in any case I think the inverse conversion needs to be modified to match it, if it hasn't been done so. - 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
