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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:29:49 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, David Lang wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > I cannot do otherwise than ask at this point in the debate: why isn't
> > the makefile rule sufficient for your needs?  Why going through a
> > complicated path that no one else will support due to its numerous
> > pitfalls?
> 
> not all uses of VCS's involve useing make

Use perl then.  Or a shell script.  Or even a command.com batch script.  
Or your own tool.

> > > That's just being obtuse - no other tool cares in the slightest about
> > > the keywords, there are more "tools" in the world than just the VCS.
> > 
> > ... which reinforces my question: why force a task on the VCS if it
> > doesn't fit well with its fundamental design?
> 
> becouse the VCS can do the job better then anything else?

On what basis?

> even if there are
> limits to what the VCS can do.

In the context of keyword expansion I don't agree at all with this 
statement.  Git can *not* do better than an external tool and it has 
been demonstrated a few times already.


Nicolas