Re: cvs to git migration - keywords

* Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> [100715 13:49]:
> Eh.  I stand corrected - what it actually does is even more
> bizarre - it stores whatever is on the disk, but then
> expands on re-write.  So:
> 
> - r1.1 contains $Id$ in the repo.
> - r1.2 contains $Id: 1.1$ in the repo.
> 
> and so on...

It's actually slightly *worse* than that... The repository r$N contains
what was in the commiters $N-1 *checked out* copy when he commits.  So
what's in the ,v file has *nothing* to do with reality, except by chance
it's $n-1 because that's what was last checkout/updated most of the
time..



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