Switching to Git

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 01:29:36PM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:
> Joost van Baal-Ilić, 2013-02-22 07:34+0100:
> >Indeed.  BTW, there's some code parsing the CVS Id tag and generating
> >current date in the output from that.  It'd be _very_ nice if we could
> >keep such functionality.  Dunno if git has some hook to do that kind
> >of trickery.
> 
> I think it does not, as that would completely disrupt the regular
> Git worklows. As I understand it, a Git server is just a repository,
> and supposed to store revisions, not to produce ones of its own.

The idea is to store foo.in in git, and generate foo from that.

> What is that code used for exactly?

To print the date on the flyer.  There's also code to check up-to-date-ness of
translations, don't remember if that does something cvs-y.

Bye,

Joost