Re: [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files)

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Ren? Scharfe wrote:
>
>> Add support for a new attribute, specfile.  Files marked as being
>> specfiles are expanded by git-archive when they are written to an
>> archive.  It has no effect on worktree files.  The same placeholders
>> as those for the option --pretty=format: of git-log et al. can be
>> used.
>
> I almost like this approach.  Would it not be a little more useful if you 
> could mark the placeholders with something like "$Format: xyz %c$"?  
> Because then we could just shut up all those complainers that want to 
> insert some revision specific information into the files, without 
> affecting formats for printf().
>
> Of course, the idea to keep the worktree unaffected is brilliant.

I think a bit more layering would be helpful: when using git-svn, one
would want to have things like $Id$ and $Date$ expanded, so maybe
attribute specs like

somefile: expandmarkers="$Date: %aD$ $Id: ....$"

would be nice having.  In the case of git-svn, I would expect them to
be generated from git-svn from the respective svn properties, so that
the user is not bothered with figuring out the awful $Id$ and whatever
strings.

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