DVCS for MacPorts Project?

[Rainer Müller]

On 2009-05-30 14:50, Akira Kitada wrote:
> It seems Git and Mercurial just think keyword substitutions are't so
> useful, and even it hurts, maybe.
> So if there were a report on that, I wonder it will be fixed.
> By the way, I also do not find $id$ is so useful. I just use it
> because MacPorts Guide recommends it.

It can be useful to make sure that someone is really using the latest or
a specific Portfile. Portfiles may be changed without incrementing the
revision. So it is good to have another identifier in the file than just
version/revision/epoch.

For example, this can be helpful some times:
$ port cat <portname> | head -n1

Rainer