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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Scharfe?= <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in  
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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:13:32 +0200
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To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> Hi,
>=20
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>=20
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Ren=E9 Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
>>>
>>>> The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles.  It =
is=20
>>>> limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though=
=2E=20
>>>> E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like outpu=
t,=20
>>>> and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes.  That can be fixed=
=20
>>>> in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of=20
>>>> git-log, too.
>>> Interesting. I however wonder if "specfile" is a good name for this=
=20
>>> attribute, although I admit I do not think of anything better offha=
nd.
>> "releasefile", perhaps?
>=20
> Maybe we should not so much name it by purpose, but by function.  How=
=20
> about "substformat" for the attribute name, and replacing any=20
> $Format:blablub$ inside those files with something a la=20
> --pretty=3Dformat:blablub?

I like the $Format:...$ notation.  How about naming the attribute
"template", as that's what a thus marked file is?

Ren=E9