Re: [PATCH] Allow the ident attribute to include a length specifier

On Monday 2007 May 14, Andy Parkins wrote:

When the ident attribute is found for a path, then git replaces $ident$
with:

  $ident: df2a1fd3ebce86876721bd7e12ce02ac89c885db $

With this patch, you can put the following in your attribute file:

  somepath ident=10

And get expansions like this:

  $ident: df2a1fd3eb $

There is no change to existing behaviour.  With no parameter, the
expansion is all 40 hex digits.

Were there any thoughts on this patch?  I think it might have got drowned in 
the noise I made about $ident$ -> $Id$.


Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
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