Re: Weird shallow-tree conversion state, and branches of shallow trees

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

Can we add an attribute like Subversion's svn:keywords? If the
attribute is set, we expand keywords when checkout and remove
expansion in memory before doing any git operations. It's some kind of
I/O filter for working directory access.

NNOOo-oooo...

Keyword substitution is just *stupid*. It's an inexcusable braindamage. 
Don't do it. It leads to all kinds of idiotic problems downstream, and it 
really doesn't help *anything* except for "but I'm used to it". There are 
absolutely no valid uses for it.

If you want to tag your files somehow, do it in "git archive" when 
exporting it, but not in the working tree. And realize that once you 
export it with the stupid keyword expansion, diffs etc will all be 
corrupted, and will not - AND MUST NOT - apply to the uncorrupted working 
tree.

			Linus