Re: Future of ident(1)

Just in case someone thinks this is something useful, I've got a PR filed
against git to implement custom $Id$. There are no technical issues with
the change but Git developers are not very keen on merging it in, since
they see this as an obscure feature, no one needs. :-/ So if anyone wants
to chime in on GitHub or git mailing list please do so.

https://github.com/git/git/pull/1074

Thanks!

-Max

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 2:30 PM Steve Kargl <
sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> All,
>
> With the new world order, what is the future of ident(1)?
> Should it be removed from base?  Given a compiled binary
> in base, how does one find the equivalent git info that
> ident(1) used to perform?
>
> Having a few minutes to dust off old patchs for libm, should
> I remove $FreeBSD$ tags in files I touch?  For new files, is
> it expected that useless $FreeBSD$ tags should be added?
>
> --
> Steve
>
>