git: 70e64ba44941 - main - release.sh: Update GITROOT URL

[Brandon Bergren]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, at 3:31 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > And no new mechanism in place to replace it?  So, we have
> > > no versioning of files in the final product any more?
> > >
> > 
> > No. We will not.
> 
> That I take a very hard line against, that is IMHO a very big mistake.
> 

Git has one main context where continuing to support expansion might make sense:

When using git archive to create a tarball of a tree (for rolling a release or whatever), if the .gitattributes file has "export-subst" set for a file, it will do expansion at that time.

However, I think it uses $Format$ instead of being able to define custom tags, so it's less convenient than $FreeBSD$ was.

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  Brandon Bergren
  bdragon at FreeBSD.org