Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Andreas Hildebrandt wrote:
>
>> But unfortunately, we internally rely heavily on the $Id:$ - expansion 
>> of CVS, that is the ability to have a line like
>> 
>> $Id:$
>> 
>> in the source file expanded to something like
>> 
>> $Id: HINFile.C,v 1.64 2005/02/09 13:02:41 oliver Exp $
>> 
>> The information we want to store in the file would be something like the 
>> SHA1 of the last commit that touched that file, the date when it 
>> happened and the person who commited it.
>
> Please see Documentation/gitattributes.txt, look for 'ident'.

Please do _not_ see that.  ident is about blob object name and
does not have anything to do with the commit, pathname,
committer, nor date, and this is deliberately so.

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