Re: Problem in GIT mirror (was Re: pgsql: Fix all the server-side SIGQUIT handlers ...) - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Problem in GIT mirror (was Re: pgsql: Fix all the server-side SIGQUIT handlers ...)
Date
Msg-id 20090518165004.GI10339@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Problem in GIT mirror (was Re: pgsql: Fix all the server-side SIGQUIT handlers ...)  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
List pgsql-www
David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:29:00AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

> > > Something you will definitively not like about Git is that we will
> > > lose the $PostgreSQL$ expansion stuff -- and there's no equivalent
> > > functionality AFAIK.
> > 
> > Well, that particular thing always struck me as something we did
> > because we could, not because there was any important requirement
> > for it.
> 
> What's it doing exactly?

What it does is expand the $PostgreSQL$ tag found in the files to
a string containing the current revision number, last author and change
date, etc.

> Is there some way to get similar functionality in git?

No AFAIK.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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