| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
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| To: | Martin Langhoff <martin(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Hacking on PostgreSQL via GIT |
| Date: | 2007-04-18 18:36:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20070418183612.GZ72669@nasby.net |
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:39:34PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Keyword expansions are generally bad because SCM tools should track
> _content_ - and keyword expansions _modify_ it to add metadata that is
> somewhat redundant, obtainable in other ways, and should just not be in
> the middle of the _data_. Those modifications lead to patches that have
> bogus hunks and sometimes don't apply, MD5/SHA1 checksums that don't
> match and a whole lot of uncertainty.
Then how do you tell what version a file is if it's outside of a
checkout?
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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