[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: converting gnulib: cvs to git

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:
>     Do you really care whether any of the following files (the only ones
>     affected in gnulib) contain an CVS/RCS-style $Id...$ string?
>
>        COPYING
>
> COPYING has no $Id$.  What am I missing?

this?

  $ grep Id COPYING
  $Id: COPYING,v 1.3 2006/10/26 16:20:28 eggert Exp $

>    config/srclist-update
>    config/srclist.txt
>    config/srclistvars.sh
>    doc/Makefile
>    doc/gnulib.texi
>
> I believe I am the one who inserted the $Id$'s in all the above files,
> and I don't mind if you remove them, although honestly I don't see a
> problem with them.  Those files are not copied around between
> hierarchies, by their nature.

Thanks.
I thought it was you :-)

There's not a problem.
It's just that with git they'd be useless.
Perhaps I shouldn't have brought it up :-)