[Bioperl-l] Leftover SVN tags

[Dave Messina]

If the file is outside of the checkout directory (i.e. installed and no .git subdir), how do we know what version it is?

We can calculate the SHA1, but is there a git command that answers the question "where does the file with this SHA1 belong into the repository?"

If there is, I'm fine with dropping the in-file $Id$ rev/author/datestamp information. (Seems like that's the Way of Git, anyway).

If not, though, I'm kinda inclined to keep some sort of author and datestamp in each file. I am prepared to be convinced otherwise, though. I've done a little reading on this issue, but I don't fully understand the arguments against.


Dave