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

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Hi,

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Ren? 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.
> 
> "releasefile", perhaps?

Maybe we should not so much name it by purpose, but by function.  How 
about "substformat" for the attribute name, and replacing any 
$Format:blablub$ inside those files with something a la 
--pretty=format:blablub?

Ciao,
Dscho

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