From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:19:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <200704171041.46176.andyparkins@gmail.com> <"200704171803.58940.a n dyparkins"@gmail.com> <200704172012.31280.andyparkins@gmail.com> <7vy7kqlj5r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , David Lang , Andy Parkins , git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 19 10:20:56 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 1HeRst-0003mH-1g for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:20:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161359AbXDSIUd (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:20:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161217AbXDSIUZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:20:25 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:50636 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161224AbXDSIUA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:20:00 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2007 08:19:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp030) with SMTP; 19 Apr 2007 10:19:58 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18x+R8eZe4xpZL+k0FH2pcSirxsvM8HDMoHhGO31y jDGV5Cg335aCV/ X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > And because it now becomes a case by case issue it is much easier for us > to simply provide a generic mechanism and let people figure out by > themselves what works and what doesn't work instead of having > philosophical discussions on the merits of keyword expansions on the > list. That's a very good point. Ciao, Dscho