Peter Karlsson <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, but not embedded in the page in a format that is visible to the > visitor. For CVS I use something like this: > > <p class="date">$Date$</p> > > to embed the last update time into the page. > I guess everyone moving from CVS/SVN to Git faces rethinking of what the RCS markers really mean in the context of their project. In my case the identifier was just a away of seeing when the file was last changed, and who did it. I decided this fit better as an editor function, rather than a checkin function. I changed my editor (Emacs) to convert RCS Ids to timestamps when I opened a file for reading. This would fix old files. When i wrote out files I would update the timestamp before writing them (via emacs's timestamp package). I didn't have to think about it as my RCS Id stamped files slowly evolve into my editor stamped ones. I'm sure I could do something similar in VIM, or with a script encapsulating another editor. This actually worked out better for me. Now the timestamps were updated even when I hadn't yet checked in the file. Since I test things before checking them in, I did not have my file changed after testing by the checkin process. I could find the the commit assocated with the file fairly quickly using "git log" and finding the commit for the file just after its timestamp. -- Barry Fishman - 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
