Re: [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files)

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René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles.  It is
> limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though.
> E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like output,
> and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes.  That can be fixed
> in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of
> git-log, too.

Interesting.  I however wonder if "specfile" is a good name for
this attribute, although I admit I do not think of anything
better offhand.

> Why did it take me that long to come up with such a simple patch?
> There was a vacation and a feature freeze in between, but above all
> I was only recently able to convince myself (using ugly code) that
> format_commit_message() can indeed be made to expand placeholders
> to git-describe strings..

Thanks.  Will take a look.
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