Johannes Schindelin schrieb: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > >> Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> 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. >> "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? I like the $Format:...$ notation. How about naming the attribute "template", as that's what a thus marked file is? René - 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
