From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <200704171041.46176.andyparkins@gmail.com> <46250175.4020300@dawes.za.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andy Parkins , git@vger.kernel.org To: Rogan Dawes X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 17 20:23:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HdsKf-0005NO-Df for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:23:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161359AbXDQSXJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:23:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161360AbXDQSXJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:23:09 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:56754 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161359AbXDQSXI (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:23:08 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l3HIN46q012172 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:23:04 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l3HIN3nG004096; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:23:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: <46250175.4020300@dawes.za.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.963 required=5 tests=AWL,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.119__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.177 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Rogan Dawes wrote: > > Well, if the only keyword we support is $BlobId:$, then if the tree/object > hasn't changed, then we still don't need to touch the object. > > Not so? Correct. However, is that actually a useful expansion? Most of the time, I'd expect people to want things like "last committer, time, story of their life" etc.. I don't think the SHA1 ID's are pretty enough that anybody would ever want to see them. But yes, they are certainly stable. Linus