DVCS for MacPorts Project?

[Akira Kitada]

Just in case you're interested in this topic:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2006/10/9/223932
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/KeywordPlan

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On May 30, 2009, at 07:50, Akira Kitada wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> Wonderful. So they knowingly distribute a client that does not conform to
> the client/server agreement.
>
> If we care enough to prevent these malformed commits from getting into our
> repository, we can write a pre-commit hook to prevent them.
>
>
>> By the way, I also do not find $id$ is so useful. I just use it
>> because MacPorts Guide recommends it.
>
> Thank you for abiding by the guideline. The $Id$ keyword has been useful to
> me many times already, in looking at modified portfiles submitted in Trac
> tickets, to determine what revision of the original portfile the new one was
> based on.
>
>