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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Gernoth <simigern@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>,
	Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in   archive files)
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:23:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vzm02klip.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46DDE69C.1080908@lsrfire.ath.cx> (René Scharfe's message of "Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:13:32 +0200")

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

>> Maybe we should not so much name it by purpose, but by function.  How 
>> about "substformat" for the attribute name, and replacing any 
>> $Format:blablub$ inside those files with something a la 
>> --pretty=format:blablub?
>
> I like the $Format:...$ notation.  How about naming the attribute
> "template", as that's what a thus marked file is?

Sounds good, although I suspect "template" might confuse newbies
that checkout may apply the substitution as well.  How about
something with "export" in it?  export-subst, perhaps?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-05  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-03 18:07 [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files) René Scharfe
2007-09-03 18:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-03 20:19   ` David Kastrup
2007-09-04 23:13     ` René Scharfe
2007-09-03 23:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-04  5:45   ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-04 10:41     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-04 23:13       ` René Scharfe
2007-09-05  0:12         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-05  0:23         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-09-06 16:20           ` [PATCH 4/3] archive: specfile syntax change: "$Format:%PLCHLDR$" instead of just "%PLCHLDR" René Scharfe
2007-09-06 17:11             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-06 20:35               ` René Scharfe
2007-09-06 20:53                 ` René Scharfe
2007-09-06 23:17                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 10:44                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-06 22:32             ` [PATCH 3.5/3] add memmem() René Scharfe
2007-09-06 22:34             ` [PATCH 4/3] archive: specfile syntax change: "$Format:%PLCHLDR$" instead of just "%PLCHLDR" (take 2) René Scharfe
2007-09-06 16:51           ` [PATCH 5/3] archive: rename attribute specfile to export-subst René Scharfe
2007-09-06 17:13             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-06 20:38               ` René Scharfe
2007-09-06 21:03               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 10:45                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-04 23:13   ` [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files) René Scharfe
2007-09-05  0:19     ` Junio C Hamano

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