Subject: [PATCH] Use $Id$ as the ident attribute keyword rather than $ident$ to be consistent with other VCSs

From: Andy Parkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:37:25 +0100

$Id$ is present already in SVN and CVS; it would mean that people
converting their existing repositories won't have to make any changes to
the source files should they want to make use of the ident attribute.

Given that it's a feature that's meant to calm those very people, it
seems obtuse to make them edit every file just to make use of it.

I think that bzr uses $Id$; Mercurial has examples hooks for $Id$;
monotone has $Id$ on its wishlist.  I can't think of a good reason not
to stick with the de-facto standard and call ours $Id$ instead of
$ident$.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <[email-masked]>
---

Patch, should anyone agree with the idea.

 convert.c |   30 +++++++++++++++---------------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/convert.c b/convert.c
index 79dfbcf..23257aa 100644
--- a/convert.c
+++ b/convert.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ static void setup_convert_check(struct git_attr_check *check)
 static int count_ident(const char *cp, unsigned long size)
 {
 	/*
-	 * "$ident: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 $" <=> "$ident$"
+	 * "$Id: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 $" <=> "$Id$"
 	 */
 	int cnt = 0;
 	char ch;
@@ -466,10 +466,10 @@ static char *ident_to_git(const char *path, const char *src, unsigned long *size
 	for (dst = buf; size; size--) {
 		char ch = *src++;
 		*dst++ = ch;
-		if ((ch == '$') && (6 <= size) &&
-		    !memcmp("ident:", src, 6)) {
-			unsigned long rem = size - 6;
-			const char *cp = src + 6;
+		if ((ch == '$') && (3 <= size) &&
+		    !memcmp("Id:", src, 3)) {
+			unsigned long rem = size - 3;
+			const char *cp = src + 3;
 			do {
 				ch = *cp++;
 				if (ch == '$')
@@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ static char *ident_to_git(const char *path, const char *src, unsigned long *size
 			} while (rem);
 			if (!rem)
 				continue;
-			memcpy(dst, "ident$", 6);
-			dst += 6;
+			memcpy(dst, "Id$", 3);
+			dst += 3;
 			size -= (cp - src);
 			src = cp;
 		}
@@ -511,13 +511,13 @@ static char *ident_to_worktree(const char *path, const char *src, unsigned long
 		const char *cp;
 		char ch = *src++;
 		*dst++ = ch;
-		if ((ch != '$') || (size < 6) || memcmp("ident", src, 5))
+		if ((ch != '$') || (size < 3) || memcmp("Id", src, 2))
 			continue;
 
-		if (src[5] == ':') {
+		if (src[2] == ':') {
 			/* discard up to but not including the closing $ */
-			unsigned long rem = size - 6;
-			cp = src + 6;
+			unsigned long rem = size - 3;
+			cp = src + 3;
 			do {
 				ch = *cp++;
 				if (ch == '$')
@@ -527,13 +527,13 @@ static char *ident_to_worktree(const char *path, const char *src, unsigned long
 			if (!rem)
 				continue;
 			size -= (cp - src);
-		} else if (src[5] == '$')
-			cp = src + 5;
+		} else if (src[2] == '$')
+			cp = src + 2;
 		else
 			continue;
 
-		memcpy(dst, "ident: ", 7);
-		dst += 7;
+		memcpy(dst, "Id: ", 4);
+		dst += 4;
 		memcpy(dst, sha1_to_hex(sha1), ident);
 		dst += ident;
 		*dst++ = ' ';
-- 
1.5.2.rc3.27.g43d151-dirty