Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

[Hugo Cornelis]

On 2/22/07, William Uther <address@hidden> wrote:
> $Id:$ in the repository.  It is expanded again on checkout.  This not
> only helps with checksumming, but also makes sure that there are no
> spurious changes between revisions.
>
> Of course, you want to keep this optional and disabled by default.
> Subversion uses attributes to turn on specific keywords for specific
> files.

What I currently do is I expand / remove keywords manually with a perl
script.  In a separate configuration file, there is a list of files to
search for keywords and a list of keywords with their expansion.

It would be nice if monotone has the right hooks to automate this
process, (just a matter of technical implementation I guess).  When
using scripts and hooks, monotone has nothing to do anymore with
keyword expansion, simplifying the implementation.

Then, alternatively, there is also the m7 script that computes a
'subversion style' revision id, given a local database.


Hugo


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