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. - 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