Re: missing file in git repo

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan escribió:
>
>   
>> I pulled together a quick hack, and here is what I get from my
>> mirrors. I'm not sure why we get those diffs - it's a bit odd,
>> although fairly insignificant.
>>     
>
> Well, it's a $Log$ CVS keyword -- it's not surprising that it's failing
> to provide exactly identical output, because it's a fairly strange
> keyword.  Note that it's the only $Log$ in the whole tree, and the
> reason you don't see it in 8.1 and beyond is because that contrib module
> was removed.
>
> Moreover, note that this particular file got imported from another CVS
> repo that had already expanded this Log keyword.  It's not really
> surprising that moving it to git fails to provide a verbatim copy.
>
> If I were worried about this, I'd edit the file in all back branches and
> remove the changelog ... or maybe de-magicalize it by removing the first
> line.
>   

Thanks for this analysis.

Based in this, I'm going to exclude these two files from the test. There 
are other instances I can see of $Log$, but it looks like they are not 
affecting us.

cheers

andrew