Re: cvs to git migration - keywords

On 7/15/10, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>  Marko Kreen wrote:
> > On 7/7/10, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > > Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > >  > So what happens right now using the existing git repository is that
> > >  > the $PostgeSQL$ tags are there, but they're unexpanded.  They just
> say
> > >  > $PostgreSQL$ rather than $PostgreSQL: tgl blah blah$.
> > >
> > >
> > > Really?  All of them?  Seems like that would have taken some intentional
> > >  processing somewhere.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > AFAIK that's what CVS actually keeps in repo, it expands keywords
> > when writing files out.
> >
> >
> >
>
>  No. It stores the expanded keyword. Just look in the ,v files in a CVS
> mirror and you'll see them.

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...

-- 
marko