From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
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: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:12:30 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709050111220.28586@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46DDE69C.1080908@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Hi,
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Ren? Scharfe wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
>
> > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> >
> >> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >>> Ren? Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles. It is
> >>>> limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though.
> >>>> E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like output,
> >>>> and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes. That can be fixed
> >>>> in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of
> >>>> git-log, too.
> >>> Interesting. I however wonder if "specfile" is a good name for this
> >>> attribute, although I admit I do not think of anything better offhand.
> >> "releasefile", perhaps?
> >
> > 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?
Unless somebody comes up with an even better name, yes (I like "template"
better than "substformat" or "releasefile", but I still think that
"template" is not descriptive enough).
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 4:00 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 [this message]
2007-09-05 0:23 ` Junio C Hamano
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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