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 - 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