No CVS Ident when using git

[putin.is.a.thief]

Just did buildworld on sources tree checked out from https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd
It produces config files with an empty $FreeBSD$ ident:

$ sudo cat /var/tmp/temproot/etc/ddb.conf
# $FreeBSD$
#
# This file is read when going to multi-user and its contents piped thru
# ``ddb'' to define debugging scripts.
# ...
# ...

My original files have a good ident:

$ cat /etc/passwd
# $FreeBSD: releng/12.1/etc/master.passwd 337882 2018-08-15 23:18:34Z brd $
#

No changes made to the working copy:

$ git status
On branch releng/12.1
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/releng/12.1'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

I also wonder is it OK that my kernel became

$ uname -a
FreeBSD host 12.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p5 #1 3135379a043(releng/12.1)-dirty: Mon Jun 8 02:02:01 CET 2020 root@host:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64

after I patched one file in kernel source code ?

 

[Jose]

Ident doesn't really work with Git because individual files don't get their own version. Instead, the whole source tree at a particular point gets a commit hash. You can enable ident in Git if you insist see here:

How do I enable the ident string for a Git repository?

How do I enable ident $Id$ on files in a Git repository?

stackoverflow.com

But keep in mind that all files are going to have the same commit sha:

Why ident attribute doesn't work in Git like CSV/SVN

Why ident attribute doesn't work in Git like CSV/SVN - git-ident.md

gist.github.com

 

[putin.is.a.thief]

I just noticed mergemaster detects every file as changed because the 'new' configs (from /var/tmp/temproot) have an empty $FreeBSD$ tag. Is it OK to maintain the configs in /etc with such ident?