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2008-11-15Documentation: New GUI configuration and command-line options.Alexander Gavrilov
Add information on new git-gui and gitk command-line options, configuration variables, and the encoding attribute. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-13Merge branch 'jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix'Junio C Hamano
* jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix: Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests. add userdiff textconv tests document the diff driver textconv feature diff: add missing static declaration Conflicts: Documentation/gitattributes.txt
2008-11-02Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano
* maint: Start 1.6.0.4 cycle add instructions on how to send patches to the mailing list with Gmail Documentation/gitattributes: Add subsection header for each attribute git send-email: avoid leaking directory file descriptors. send-pack: do not send out single-level refs such as refs/stash fix overlapping memcpy in normalize_absolute_path pack-objects: avoid reading uninitalized data correct cache_entry allocation Conflicts: RelNotes
2008-11-02Documentation/gitattributes: Add subsection header for each attributeJakub Narebski
This makes attributes easier to find; before this patch some attributes had individual subsections, and some didn't. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-31Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano
* maint: git-svn: change dashed git-commit-tree to git commit-tree Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute bash completion: add doubledash to "git show" Use test-chmtime -v instead of perl in t5000 to get mtime of a file Add --verbose|-v to test-chmtime asciidoc: add minor workaround to add an empty line after code blocks Plug a memleak in builtin-revert Add file delete/create info when we overflow rename_limit Install git-cvsserver in $(bindir) Install git-shell in bindir, too
2008-10-31Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attributeJan Krüger
The documentation spoke of the attribute being set "to" a path; this can mistakenly be interpreted as "the attribute needs to have its value set to some kind of path". This clarifies things. Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-26document the diff driver textconv featureJeff King
This patch also changes the term "custom diff driver" to "external diff driver"; now that there are more facets of a "custom driver" than just external diffing, it makes sense to refer to the configuration of "diff.foo.*" as the "foo diff driver", with "diff.foo.command" as the "external driver for foo". Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-06Teach git diff about Objective-C syntaxJonathan del Strother
Add support for recognition of Objective-C class & instance methods, C functions, and class implementation/interfaces. Signed-off-by: Jonathan del Strother <jon.delStrother@bestbefore.tv> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-09-29Merge branch 'maint' into bc/master-diff-hunk-header-fixShawn O. Pearce
* maint: (41 commits) Clarify commit error message for unmerged files Use strchrnul() instead of strchr() plus manual workaround Use remove_path from dir.c instead of own implementation Add remove_path: a function to remove as much as possible of a path git-submodule: Fix "Unable to checkout" for the initial 'update' Clarify how the user can satisfy stash's 'dirty state' check. Remove empty directories in recursive merge Documentation: clarify the details of overriding LESS via core.pager Update release notes for 1.6.0.3 checkout: Do not show local changes when in quiet mode for-each-ref: Fix --format=%(subject) for log message without newlines git-stash.sh: don't default to refs/stash if invalid ref supplied maint: check return of split_cmdline to avoid bad config strings builtin-prune.c: prune temporary packs in <object_dir>/pack directory Do not perform cross-directory renames when creating packs Use dashless git commands in setgitperms.perl git-remote: do not use user input in a printf format string make "git remote" report multiple URLs Start draft release notes for 1.6.0.3 git-repack uses --no-repack-object, not --no-repack-delta. ... Conflicts: RelNotes
2008-09-29Merge branch 'bc/maint-diff-hunk-header-fix' into maintShawn O. Pearce
* bc/maint-diff-hunk-header-fix: t4018-diff-funcname: test syntax of builtin xfuncname patterns diff hunk pattern: fix misconverted "\{" tex macro introducers diff: use extended regexp to find hunk headers diff.*.xfuncname which uses "extended" regex's for hunk header selection diff.c: associate a flag with each pattern and use it for compiling regex diff.c: return pattern entry pointer rather than just the hunk header pattern Conflicts: Documentation/gitattributes.txt
2008-09-19Merge branch 'bc/maint-diff-hunk-header-fix' into bc/master-diff-hunk-header-fixJunio C Hamano
* bc/maint-diff-hunk-header-fix: diff.*.xfuncname which uses "extended" regex's for hunk header selection diff.c: associate a flag with each pattern and use it for compiling regex diff.c: return pattern entry pointer rather than just the hunk header pattern Cosmetical command name fix Start conforming code to "git subcmd" style part 3 t9700/test.pl: remove File::Temp requirement t9700/test.pl: avoid bareword 'STDERR' in 3-argument open() GIT 1.6.0.2 Fix some manual typos. Use compatibility regex library also on FreeBSD Use compatibility regex library also on AIX Update draft release notes for 1.6.0.2 Use compatibility regex library for OSX/Darwin git-svn: Fixes my() parameter list syntax error in pre-5.8 Perl Git.pm: Use File::Temp->tempfile instead of ->new t7501: always use test_cmp instead of diff Start conforming code to "git subcmd" style part 2 diff: Help "less" hide ^M from the output checkout: do not check out unmerged higher stages randomly Conflicts: Documentation/git.txt Documentation/gitattributes.txt Makefile diff.c t/t7201-co.sh
2008-09-19diff.*.xfuncname which uses "extended" regex's for hunk header selectionBrandon Casey
Currently, the hunk headers produced by 'diff -p' are customizable by setting the diff.*.funcname option in the config file. The 'funcname' option takes a basic regular expression. This functionality was designed using the GNU regex library which, by default, allows using backslashed versions of some extended regular expression operators, even in Basic Regular Expression mode. For example, the following characters, when backslashed, are interpreted according to the extended regular expression rules: ?, +, and |. As such, the builtin funcname patterns were created using some extended regular expression operators. Other platforms which adhere more strictly to the POSIX spec do not interpret the backslashed extended RE operators in Basic Regular Expression mode. This causes the pattern matching for the builtin funcname patterns to fail on those platforms. Introduce a new option 'xfuncname' which uses extended regular expressions, and advertise it _instead_ of funcname. Since most users are on GNU platforms, the majority of funcname patterns are created and tested there. Advertising only xfuncname should help to avoid the creation of non-portable patterns which work with GNU regex but not elsewhere. Additionally, the extended regular expressions may be less ugly and complicated compared to the basic RE since many common special operators do not need to be backslashed. For example, the GNU Basic RE: ^[ ]*\\(\\(public\\|static\\).*\\)$ becomes the following Extended RE: ^[ ]*((public|static).*)$ Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-19Clarified gitattributes documentation regarding custom hunk header.Garry Dolley
The only part of the hunk header that we can change is the "TEXT" portion. Additionally, a few grammatical errors have been corrected. Signed-off-by: Garry Dolley <gdolley@ucla.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-12Fix some manual typos.Ralf Wildenhues
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-07Teach "git diff -p" to locate PHP class methodsAndreas Ericsson
Otherwise it will always print the class-name rather than the name of the function inside that class. While we're at it, reorder the gitattributes manpage to list the built-in funcname pattern names in alphabetical order. Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-31Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano
* maint: Document sendemail.envelopesender configuration Document clarification: gitmodules, gitattributes config.txt: Add missing colons after option name
2008-08-31Document clarification: gitmodules, gitattributesGustaf Hendeby
The SYNOPSIS section of gitattibutes and gitmodule fail to clearly specify the name of the in tree files used. This patch brings in the initial `.' and the fact that the `.gitmodules' file should reside at the top-level of the working tree. Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-31Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano
* maint: gitattributes: -crlf is not binary git-apply: Loosen "match_beginning" logic Fix example in git-name-rev documentation shell: do not play duplicated definition games to shrink the executable Fix use of hardlinks in "make install" pack-objects: Allow missing base objects when creating thin packs
2008-08-31gitattributes: -crlf is not binaryJunio C Hamano
The description of crlf attribute incorrectly said that "-crlf" means binary. It is true that for binary files you would want "-crlf", but that is not the same thing. We also have supported attribute macros and via that mechanism a handy "binary" to specify "-crlf -diff" at the same time. It was not documented anywhere as far as I can tell, even though the support was there from the very beginning. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-21Teach "git diff -p" HTML funcname patternsJohan Herland
Find lines with <h1>..<h6> tags. [jc: while at it, reordered entries to sort alphabetically.] Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-21Teach "git diff -p" Python funcname patternsKirill Smelkov
Find classes, functions, and methods definitions. Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-12Teach git diff about BibTeX head hunk patternsGustaf Hendeby
All BibTeX entries starts with an @ followed by an entry type. Since there are many entry types and own can be defined, the pattern matches legal entry type names instead of just the default types (which would be a long list). The pattern also matches strings and comments since they will also be useful to position oneself in a bib-file. Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-12gitattributes: Document built in hunk header patternsGustaf Hendeby
Since the hunk header pattern text was written patterns for Ruby and Pascal/Delphi have been added. For users to be able to find them they should be documented not only in code. Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-06Merge branch 'qq/maint'Junio C Hamano
* qq/maint: clone -q: honor "quiet" option over native transports. attribute documentation: keep EXAMPLE at end builtin-commit.c: Use 'git_config_string' to get 'commit.template' http.c: Use 'git_config_string' to clean up SSL config. diff.c: Use 'git_config_string' to get 'diff.external' convert.c: Use 'git_config_string' to get 'smudge' and 'clean' builtin-log.c: Use 'git_config_string' to get 'format.subjectprefix' and 'format.suffix' Documentation cvs: Clarify when a bare repository is needed Documentation: be precise about which date --pretty uses Conflicts: Documentation/gitattributes.txt
2008-07-06attribute documentation: keep EXAMPLE at endJunio C Hamano
The document gives overall definition of states in DESCRIPTION, describes various aspects of git operations that can be influenced in EFFECTS, and finally gives examples in the EXAMPLE section. Archive creation however was somehow documented after the EXAMPLE section, not insode EFFECTS. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize nongit command names (if they are in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder
Some manual pages use teletype font to set command names. We change them to use italics, instead. This creates a visual distinction between names of commands and command lines that can be typed at the command line. It is also more consistent with other man pages outside Git. In this patch, the commands named are non-git commands like bash. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i" done git diff . Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-02Documentation formatting and cleanupJonathan Nieder
Following what appears to be the predominant style, format names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`. While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-02Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Jonathan Nieder
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-09Teach new attribute 'export-ignore' to git-archiveRené Scharfe
Paths marked with this attribute are not output to git-archive output. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06documentation: move git(7) to git(1)Christian Couder
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user level, it seems better to move it to man section 1. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-27Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano
* maint: Update draft release notes for 1.5.4.5 Documentation: clarify use of .git{ignore,attributes} versus .git/info/* t/t3800-mktag.sh: use test_must_fail rather than '!' Conflicts: t/t3800-mktag.sh
2008-03-27Documentation: clarify use of .git{ignore,attributes} versus .git/info/*Jeff King
gitignore patterns can be read from three different files, while gitattributes can come from two files. Let's provide some hints to the user about the differences and how they are typically used. Suggested by Toby Corkindale, but gratuitously reworded by Jeff King. Signed-off-by: Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@rea-group.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-06safecrlf: Add mechanism to warn about irreversible crlf conversionsSteffen Prohaska
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings such that we have only LF line endings in the repository. But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the conversion can corrupt data. If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right after committing you still have the original file in your work tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell git that this file is binary and git will handle the file appropriately. Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files converting CRLFs corrupts data. This patch adds a mechanism that can either warn the user about an irreversible conversion or can even refuse to convert. The mechanism is controlled by the variable core.safecrlf, with the following values: - false: disable safecrlf mechanism - warn: warn about irreversible conversions - true: refuse irreversible conversions The default is to warn. Users are only affected by this default if core.autocrlf is set. But the current default of git is to leave core.autocrlf unset, so users will not see warnings unless they deliberately chose to activate the autocrlf mechanism. The safecrlf mechanism's details depend on the git command. The general principles when safecrlf is active (not false) are: - we warn/error out if files in the work tree can modified in an irreversible way without giving the user a chance to backup the original file. - for read-only operations that do not modify files in the work tree we do not not print annoying warnings. There are exceptions. Even though... - "git add" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, the next checkout would, so the safety triggers; - "git apply" to update a text file with a patch does touch the files in the work tree, but the operation is about text files and CRLF conversion is about fixing the line ending inconsistencies, so the safety does not trigger; - "git diff" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, it is often run to inspect the changes you intend to next "git add". To catch potential problems early, safety triggers. The concept of a safety check was originally proposed in a similar way by Linus Torvalds. Thanks to Dimitry Potapov for insisting on getting the naked LF/autocrlf=true case right. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
2008-01-07Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitDan McGee
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock Asciidoc configuration: @@ -149,7 +153,10 @@ # Inline macros. # Backslash prefix required for escape processing. # (?s) re flag for line spanning. -(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + +# Explicit so they can be nested. +(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor. (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]] This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being matched by the wrong regex. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-23Documentation: describe 'union' low-level merge driverJunio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-09Merge branch 'jc/spht'Junio C Hamano
* jc/spht: Use gitattributes to define per-path whitespace rule core.whitespace: documentation updates. builtin-apply: teach whitespace_rules builtin-apply: rename "whitespace" variables and fix styles core.whitespace: add test for diff whitespace error highlighting git-diff: complain about >=8 consecutive spaces in initial indent War on whitespace: first, a bit of retreat. Conflicts: cache.h config.c diff.c
2007-12-06Use gitattributes to define per-path whitespace ruleJunio C Hamano
The `core.whitespace` configuration variable allows you to define what `diff` and `apply` should consider whitespace errors for all paths in the project (See gitlink:git-config[1]). This attribute gives you finer control per path. For example, if you have these in the .gitattributes: frotz whitespace nitfol -whitespace xyzzy whitespace=-trailing all types of whitespace problems known to git are noticed in path 'frotz' (i.e. diff shows them in diff.whitespace color, and apply warns about them), no whitespace problem is noticed in path 'nitfol', and the default types of whitespace problems except "trailing whitespace" are noticed for path 'xyzzy'. A project with mixed Python and C might want to have: *.c whitespace *.py whitespace=-indent-with-non-tab in its toplevel .gitattributes file. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano
* maint: git-clean: honor core.excludesfile Documentation: Fix man page breakage with DocBook XSL v1.72 git-remote.txt: fix typo core-tutorial.txt: Fix argument mistake in an example. replace reference to git-rm with git-reset in git-commit doc Grammar fixes for gitattributes documentation Don't allow fast-import tree delta chains to exceed maximum depth revert/cherry-pick: allow starting from dirty work tree. t/t3404: fix test for a bogus todo file. Conflicts: fast-import.c
2007-11-14Grammar fixes for gitattributes documentationWincent Colaiuta
Tweak the "filter" section of the gitattributes documentation to add some missing articles and improve some word choices without changing the semantics of the section. Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-29Sync with GIT 1.5.3.3Junio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-26gitattributes.txt: Be more to the point in the filter driver description.Johannes Sixt
The description was meant to emphasizes that the project should remain usable even if the filter driver was not used. This makes it more explicit and removes the "here is rope to hang yourself" paraphrase. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-26gitattributes.txt: Remove a duplicated paragraph about 'ident' and 'crlf' ↵Johannes Sixt
interaction. The order in which 'ident' and 'crlf' are carried out is documented a few paragraphs later again, after 'filter' was introduced. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-07archive: rename attribute specfile to export-substRené Scharfe
As suggested by Junio and Johannes, change the name of the former attribute specfile to export-subst to indicate its function rather than purpose and to make clear that it is not applied to working tree files. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-07archive: specfile syntax change: "$Format:%PLCHLDR$" instead of just ↵René Scharfe
"%PLCHLDR" (take 2) As suggested by Johannes, --pretty=format: placeholders in specfiles need to be wrapped in $Format:...$ now. This syntax change restricts the expansion of placeholders and makes it easier to use with files that contain non-placeholder percent signs. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-03archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files)René Scharfe
Add support for a new attribute, specfile. Files marked as being specfiles are expanded by git-archive when they are written to an archive. It has no effect on worktree files. The same placeholders as those for the option --pretty=format: of git-log et al. can be used. The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles. It is limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though. E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like output, and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes. That can be fixed in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of git-log, too. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-25Documentation: Correct various misspellings and typos.Brian Hetro
Fix minor typos throughout the documentation. Signed-off-by: Brian Hetro <whee@smaertness.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-30Documentation/gitattributes.txt: typofixDavid Soria Parra
The file used for per-repository attribute setting is not $GIT_DIR/info/gitattributes, but $GIT_DIR/info/attributes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-09Document custom hunk header selectionJunio C Hamano
Since the external interface seems to have stabilized for this new feature, let's document it properly. Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-05-15Use $Id$ as the ident attribute keyword rather than $ident$ to be consistent ↵Andy Parkins
with other VCSs $Id$ is present already in SVN and CVS; it would mean that people converting their existing repositories won't have to make any changes to the source files should they want to make use of the ident attribute. Given that it's a feature that's meant to calm those very people, it seems obtuse to make them edit every file just to make use of it. 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 $ident$. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>