David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:29:00AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > > Something you will definitively not like about Git is that we will
> > > lose the $PostgreSQL$ expansion stuff -- and there's no equivalent
> > > functionality AFAIK.
> >
> > Well, that particular thing always struck me as something we did
> > because we could, not because there was any important requirement
> > for it.
>
> What's it doing exactly?
What it does is expand the $PostgreSQL$ tag found in the files to
a string containing the current revision number, last author and change
date, etc.
> Is there some way to get similar functionality in git?
No AFAIK.
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