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

Andy Parkins [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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 $ident$ -> $Id$.

I was kind of hoping that I can avoid the decision and also I
can avoid having to remember it, by waiting long enough and
either seeing nobody on the list bring it up again, in which
case we can safely forget it, or somebody asks "what happened to
this, I want it too!", in which case the original submitter
would resubmit after the dust settles after 1.5.2, possibly with
a necessary rebase and clean-up.  I'll see which one is the case
in the coming few weeks ;-).