Re: Weird shallow-tree conversion state, and branches of shallow trees

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 2007, April 17, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
> > However, it's missing the point to take my example as an unsolved
> > problem - there are plenty of ways I can get what I want; I brought
> > it up merely as a counter to the statement that there were no valid
> > situations for wanting keyword expansion.
>
> That's actually quite different from what you said.

Sorry; I didn't express it very well - the thing that started all this 
was the statement that there was no valid use case for keywords.  I 
just gave an example.  I felt that the thread was moving away from 
keywords and towards solving my particular problem - which is all 
appreciated, but wasn't the point.  Running makefile recipes or extra 
scripts are all valid methods and pragmatic 
working-with-what-git-does-now solutions.  I wanted to distinguish 
between what I could do now and what I could do with keyword support.

> You were claiming that with built-in keyword expansion what you
> want becomes /simpler/.  I questioned that.

Well it does from the point of view of pressing "print".

> Maybe it's just me, who is not a GUI person [*1*], but to me,
> having to start inkscape, mouse around to find the "Print"
> button and print feels much more cumbersome than simply typing
> "make print".

Again, that was addressing my particular problem - good stuff.  However, 
it's just luck that inkscape has a batch mode - there's no guarantee 
for that.

I could just swap the example around a bit, what about if it was an 
OpenOffice document that I want to have transparent 
compression/decompression and I've set the properties tag to 
contain "$Id$".  There is no amount of scripting that will enable batch 
printing of that.

Anyway - I've wasted enough of your time with this foolishness now.  
It's dropped, consider me silenced on this subject ;-)



Andy

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