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to: RAGNAROK
from: DIGITAL MAN
date: 2020-08-25 13:36:00
subject: Re: GitHub

  Re: Re: GitHub
  By: Ragnarok to Digital Man on Tue Aug 25 2020 01:26 pm

 > El 25/8/20 a las 00:00, Digital Man escribi¢:
 > >   Re: GitHub
 > >   By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Aug 24 2020 07:24 pm
 >
 > >  >   Re: GitHub
 > >  >   By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Mon Aug 24 2020 04:20 pm
 >
 > >  >  >> Then how do you know if you have the latest version?
 >
 > >  >  DM> You run "git status". If you don't have git, well, then you don't
 > >  >  DM> know.
 > >  >  DM> But that was true of the text.dat file before. The text.dat file
 > >  >  DM> did not have revision number embedded in it.
 >
 > >  > Do you know if there's a way to have Git insert the commit IDs in the
 > >  > files
 > >  > similar to how CVS was inserting the CVS version numbers, using a tag
 > >  > of some kind?
 >
 > > I haven't played it yet, but apparently there is a way to have some git
 > > commands insert blob hash (or commit-ID?) into the $Id:$ keyword embedded
 > > in files: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1792838/how-do-i-enable-the-
 > > ident-string- for-a-git-repository
 >
 > > The problems with this are:
 > > 1. It's not the same format as the CVS Id keyword expansion (not even
 > > close) 2. The $Revision:$ keyword isn't expanded, which is what I usually
 > > use in source files to grab/report the CVS revision of the file.
 >
 > > But I intend to look more into it and other potential solutions to the
 > > incrementing file revision.
 >
 > >                                             digital man
 >
 > Maybe creating some kind of hook. A script that read the Id from the
 > file and increment it
 >
 > https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
 >
 > But, i think that is not necesary had the old versioning method into the
 > actual git..

Yup. Most of those are client-side hooks (not copied into the repo itself, so
not present in other clones) - so not useful. Some kind of server-side hook
maybe. I plan to look into it more.

                                            digital man

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