On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote: > On Tuesday 2007, April 17, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Trust me. There's NO WAY IN HELL it will "work" in any other sense > > than "limp along and not be usable". > > Well I'm making progress, "limp along" is a significant step up from > impossible. :-) > > Look, my primary objection to this is the SHOUTING about how impossible > it is even though I've tried to address every problem you've thrown at > me - I'm finding it really difficult to figure out why you're trying so > hard to dissuade me from even _trying_. If it all goes wrong (as I > fully accept it might), so be it, I can live with that; I'll even be > happy to tell you you're right and I'm wrong. Why is this such a > problem? > > Keywords are so hated by everyone that I doubt they would ever be > accepted into git - it's an intellectual exercise for me at this stage > really. 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? > > Yes, you can make your "print it out" example work, but as alreadyt > > mentioned, you could have done that some other way, with a simple > > makefile rule, quite independently (and much better) than the SCM > > ever did. > > 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? Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html