Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:53:56 -0600 From: "Brandon Bergren" <bdragon@FreeBSD.org> To: rgrimes@freebsd.org, "Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "Glen Barber" <gjb@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 70e64ba44941 - main - release.sh: Update GITROOT URL Message-ID: <f6dea68e-8834-4fe6-b7f8-c808a831c717@www.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <202012302131.0BULVETD083618@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <202012302131.0BULVETD083618@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, at 3:31 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > And no new mechanism in place to replace it? So, we have > > > no versioning of files in the final product any more? > > > > > > > No. We will not. > > That I take a very hard line against, that is IMHO a very big mistake. > Git has one main context where continuing to support expansion might make sense: When using git archive to create a tarball of a tree (for rolling a release or whatever), if the .gitattributes file has "export-subst" set for a file, it will do expansion at that time. However, I think it uses $Format$ instead of being able to define custom tags, so it's less convenient than $FreeBSD$ was. -- Brandon Bergren bdragon@FreeBSD.org
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