Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-08-13, o godz. 19:13:06 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org napisał(a): If this is a highly-requested feature then some discussion or other reference to it should exist in mailing lists. I can neither remember nor can I find such a discussion.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On 13 Aug 2015 10:36, William Hubbs wrote: I understood the usefulness of this line to some when we were using CVS since it expanded into the ebuild revision, date, etc. This expansion doesn't take place under git, so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: delete it and be done +1 When I asked a few days ago the arugment was made that it will be expanded when the ebuilds hit rsync, and then users can reference these when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:13:06 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: delete it and be done +1 +1 to remove this CVS remnant. It was needed before, it is not really needed now. Best

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Tyler Pohl tylerap...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone please tell me how to get off this mailing list? Please please please Well first you don't reply to an unrelated topic... But the instructions are here:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-08-13, o godz. 19:13:06 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: delete it and be done +1 When I asked a few days ago the arugment was made that it will be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: delete it and be done +1 When I asked a few days ago the arugment was made that it will be expanded

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 13 Aug 2015 10:36, William Hubbs wrote: I understood the usefulness of this line to some when we were using CVS since it expanded into the ebuild revision, date, etc. This expansion doesn't take place under git, so now I don't understand the usefulness of this line. If I have missed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Tyler Pohl
Can someone please tell me how to get off this mailing list? Please please please On Aug 13, 2015 8:37 AM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: All, I understood the usefulness of this line to some when we were using CVS since it expanded into the ebuild revision, date, etc. This

[gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread William Hubbs
All, I understood the usefulness of this line to some when we were using CVS since it expanded into the ebuild revision, date, etc. This expansion doesn't take place under git, so now I don't understand the usefulness of this line. If I have missed something, can someone fill me in, or if it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Mikle Kolyada
13.08.2015 18:36, William Hubbs пишет: All, I understood the usefulness of this line to some when we were using CVS since it expanded into the ebuild revision, date, etc. This expansion doesn't take place under git, so now I don't understand the usefulness of this line. If I have missed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

2015-08-13 Thread Matthias Maier
This expansion doesn't take place under git, so now I don't understand the usefulness of this line. If I have missed something, can someone fill me in, or if it isn't useful any more can we consider removing it? It is possible to define custom keyword expansions for $Id$ with .gitattributes