ms/customizable-ident-expansion (was: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2021, #03; Fri, 10))

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 10 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:

[CC-ing Maksym, the topic author]

> * ms/customizable-ident-expansion (2021-09-01) 1 commit
>  - keyword expansion: make "$Id$" string configurable
>
>  Instead of "$Id$", user-specified string (like $FreeBSD$) can be
>  used as an in-blob placeholder for keyword expansion.
>
>  Will discard.
>  Stalled for too long.
>  cf. <xmqqfsuosvrh.fsf@gitster.g>
>  cf. <211101.86fssf3bn3.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
>  source: <pull.1074.v3.git.git.1630462385587.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

I'd like to see this go in, not because I'd personally find it useful,
but mainly because I didn't find anything wrong with it (per my review
id [1] linked above), and more importantly because the saga ending here
seems rather unfriendly to a first-time contributor.

Wasn't the "stalled for too long" mainly a victim of timing? I.e. that
it happened to be submitted/discussed around the end of the last release
cycle?

Maksym: Are you interested in pursuing this still?

I think per Junio's[2] an updated commit message describing some of the
use-case (and in particular how/why .gitattributes v.s. a git config
setting is needed) might be enough to help move this forward.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/211101.86fssf3bn3.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqwnlito0b.fsf@gitster.g/