Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c

On Tuesday 2007, April 17, Linus Torvalds wrote:

And think what we do about files (and whole subdirectories!) that
haven't even changed. And finally, think about how important that
optimization is in an SCM like git that supports branches.

I think you'll find that keyword expansion simply isn't acceptable.

As I said in my reply to Junio; other VCSs only expand keywords when the 
file itself is checked out - when git's uber-fast switching decides 
that fileA is the same in the source and target checkouts, then the 
keywords won't be updated - fine.

In this one respect git would be "as good as" instead of "infinitely 
better".  I can live with that.

But hey, you didn't believe me, so I'm happy you are trying to write
the patches. Either you'll prove me wrong, or you'll realize just
*how* broken the feature is.

Could be - I'm happy to disagree.  I'm even happy to accept that I might 
fail miserably.


Andy
-- 
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
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