Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, David Lang wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I would like to, however this doesn't currently integrate well with git. I've
> been told in the past that once .gitattributes is in place then the hooks for
> the crlf stuff can be generalized to allow for calls out to custom code to do
> this sort of thing.

And I agree that this is a perfectly sensible thing to do.  The facility 
should be there for you to apply any kind of transformation with 
external tools on data going in or out from Git.  There are good and bad 
things you can do with such a facility, but at least it becomes your 
responsibility to screw^H^H^H^Hfilter your data and not something that 
is enforced by Git itself.


Nicolas