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

On Monday 2007, April 16, Junio C Hamano wrote:

In your workflow, when do you "print"?

After a save and commit.  Otherwise - as you point out, the id is wrong.

the final "cvs diff" would say you have such and such changes to
the drawing file you just printed since the checked-in version.
However, doesn't "$Id: ... $" embedded in the printed copy say
it is from the last checked-in version?

Yep.  You will get no argument from me that keywords are by no means 
definitive.

Is inkscape aware of the "$Id: ... $" keyword and modifies such
string by munging it to "$Id: ..., modified $", once you make a

Nope.  Inkscape knows nothing about the expansion.  However, even if I 
wasn't careful to only print out checked in files, it would still 
narrow down the possible versions to one of two.

local modification to the document?  Otherwise you cannot tell
if the printed copy is pristine and match what the $Id$ keyword
claims it is.

Correct.  Every user of keywords is aware that the keyword doesn't 
update all the time - in fact there's nothing to stop you changing the 
keyword yourself to an utter lie.  I think the assumption is that you 
aren't fighting your own tools though.

Or maybe in your workflow, such a local modification may not
actually matter because you made a habit of not making a drastic
edit before printing.

Yep.

Or perhaps maybe you never print a locally modified copy.

Yep.  In fact, for me, most of the time I'm printing a diagram that was 
checked in a number of revisions ago.  It's not the case that I 
modify-print.  However, that's just me.

Does Inkscape have a batch mode operation?  It might be an
option to have something like this in the Makefile if it does (I
do not know if it does, and if so what the syntax is, so this is
totally made up):

I think it does as it happens; and your little script is just the sort 
of thing I will use when I get around to fixing this hole.

However, it's missing the point to take my example as an unsolved 
problem - there are plenty of ways I can get what I want; I brought it 
up merely as a counter to the statement that there were no valid 
situations for wanting keyword expansion.



Andy

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