[Bro-Dev] Subversion (and CVS) style $Id$ keywords

[Gregor Maier]

Hi,

I was just wondering whether we want to use something similar to the
$Id$ keyword for git. If not, we should probably remove all the $Id$
lines in the code....


It's seems it's deliberately not supported in git. However,
gitattributes(5) can be used to embed a "blobid" (which basically is the
SHA-1 of the file's contents when it was committed). There's also a
"filter" feature in gitattributes that could be used to hack something
together, but it's probably a bad idea.


Why is it not in git:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44750

gitattributes:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html

cu
gregor
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