On Tuesday 2007, April 17, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > However, it's missing the point to take my example as an unsolved > > problem - there are plenty of ways I can get what I want; I brought > > it up merely as a counter to the statement that there were no valid > > situations for wanting keyword expansion. > > That's actually quite different from what you said. Sorry; I didn't express it very well - the thing that started all this was the statement that there was no valid use case for keywords. I just gave an example. I felt that the thread was moving away from keywords and towards solving my particular problem - which is all appreciated, but wasn't the point. Running makefile recipes or extra scripts are all valid methods and pragmatic working-with-what-git-does-now solutions. I wanted to distinguish between what I could do now and what I could do with keyword support. > You were claiming that with built-in keyword expansion what you > want becomes /simpler/. I questioned that. Well it does from the point of view of pressing "print". > Maybe it's just me, who is not a GUI person [*1*], but to me, > having to start inkscape, mouse around to find the "Print" > button and print feels much more cumbersome than simply typing > "make print". Again, that was addressing my particular problem - good stuff. However, it's just luck that inkscape has a batch mode - there's no guarantee for that. I could just swap the example around a bit, what about if it was an OpenOffice document that I want to have transparent compression/decompression and I've set the properties tag to contain "$Id$". There is no amount of scripting that will enable batch printing of that. Anyway - I've wasted enough of your time with this foolishness now. It's dropped, consider me silenced on this subject ;-) Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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