On Nov 7, 2016, at 02:54, René J. V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Re: $Id$ headers: I found them quite useful as a quick an unambiguous way to > compare file versions chronologically. Isn't there a way to bring this back > with > a pre-commit hook and possibly `git interpret-trailers`? I've dabbled in > adding > things to my commit messages but never in modifying the files to be committed > themselves, so I don't know if it's doable. But it'd be something that only > (concerned) port maintainers with commit rights need to do, so it doesn't > seem > unreasonable to suppose they'd be able to follow instructions on how to put > this > in place.
I don't think we're interested in doing this, even if it is possible. The Id lines were a relic from CVS that we kept when moving to Subversion but it is not the Git way so we're removing them.
