DVCS for MacPorts Project?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 31, 2009, at 11:35, Blair Zajac wrote:

> On May 31, 2009, at 2:18 AM, Toby Peterson wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen any issues from people using other (non-svn)  
>> clients to commit - afaik the $Id$ tag expansion is a server-side  
>> operation...
>
> It's a client side operation.  The client removes the characters  
> after the d and before the $ when it sends the file to the server  
> and adds the contents when it checks out or updates the file.
>
> For example, look at this URL in a browser, not an svn client:
>
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/java/jna/ 
> Portfile

Right, and there was recently a brief thread on the dev list where I  
noticed commits where this normalizing of the Id was not happening  
and git seemed to be implicated:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2009-April/ 
008467.html