Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 2007, April 17, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And think what we do about files (and whole subdirectories!) that
> haven't even changed. And finally, think about how important that
> optimization is in an SCM like git that supports branches.
>
> I think you'll find that keyword expansion simply isn't acceptable.

As I said in my reply to Junio; other VCSs only expand keywords when the 
file itself is checked out - when git's uber-fast switching decides 
that fileA is the same in the source and target checkouts, then the 
keywords won't be updated - fine.

In this one respect git would be "as good as" instead of "infinitely 
better".  I can live with that.

> But hey, you didn't believe me, so I'm happy you are trying to write
> the patches. Either you'll prove me wrong, or you'll realize just
> *how* broken the feature is.

Could be - I'm happy to disagree.  I'm even happy to accept that I might 
fail miserably.


Andy
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