Re: Memory overrun in http-push.c

Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:

By the way, I am missing one thing: the Id keyword in the file. The
problem is that when some user is telling me: there is a bug in the
function a() that is inside the file b.c, then I can ask him to
give me the $Id$ tag of the file and I will have the full information
about the file version. Can I have it with git if user has just the
sources without any signs of the file versions? I've glanced over
the git manual, but was unable to find anything usable.

 
First, keyword expansion on checkout (CVS-like) is an abomination;
the proper way is to do it on _build_ time, like git and Linux kernel
do, so "git version" (or "git --version") and "uname -a" gives us
the version which can be used with git to go to it.

Second, there were some work on git mailing list to create git command
which given a blob (or sha1 of a blob object) would list all commits
(in date order) which have this exact version of a file (of a blob).

Third, tar files generated by git-acrhive have version embedded as
a comment in them.
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git