[Monotone-devel] Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

[Alvaro Herrera]

A.M. wrote:
> 
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 13:00 , Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> >One thing that Monotone doesn't do to which we are used to, is
> >$Id$-style keyword expansion.  The only other problem I see  
> >currently is
> >the long time to get an initial pull.
> 
> Monotone will never support such templating because it relies on SHA  
> hashing to track the repo history, so changing the repo before the  
> hashing would mean that monotone would have to track pre- and post- 
> templated files.

I know :-(   My question is, what is the mechanism used to replace it?

One thing of note is that we have some files derived from NetBSD, Tcl,
zic, and others, and we have $NetBSD$ tags in there (etc) to track the
exact file we copied.  It would be nice to have a simple mechanism to do
that as well.

How does Monotone solve this problem?

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