Does git have keyword expansion?
Not recommended. Keyword expansion causes all sorts of strange problems and isn’t really useful anyway, especially within the context of an SCM. Outside git you may perform keyword expansion using a script. The Linux kernel export script does this to set the EXTRA_VERSION variable in the Makefile. See gitattributes(5) if you really want to do this. If your translation is not reversible (eg SCCS keyword expansion) this may be problematic. (Hint: The supplied $Id$-expansion puts the 40-character hexadecimal blob object name into the id; you can figure out which commits include this blob by using a script like this.) See here for a discussion, and here on how GIT may help anyway.
Keyword expansion is not recommended. Keyword expansion causes all sorts of strange problems and isn’t really useful anyway, especially within the context of an SCM. You can perform keyword expansion outside of git using a custom script. The Linux kernel export script does this to set the EXTRA_VERSION variable in the Makefile. See gitattributes(5) if you really want to do this. If your translation is not reversible (eg SCCS keyword expansion) this may be problematic. (Hint: the supplied $Id$-expansion puts the 40-character hexadecimal blob object name into the id; you can figure out which commits include this blob by using a script like this.) See here for a discussion, and here on how GIT may help anyway.
