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

"Robin H. Johnson" [off-list ref] writes:

Glancing at the Gentoo bugs I've dealt with over the last 2 months as a
quick survey, there are a few levels: 
A - Able to submit a good diff
B - Able to do a good implementation
C - Able to come up with a good idea for improvement

B are in short supply, and even of those, the number that can do A are
smaller :-(. Category C is vastly bigger than B, and those that don't
make B throw up a lot of chaff of bad implementations.

Being able to extract the good ideas is what's important.

True, to a certain degree.  Maybe you and your fellow Gentoo
people are very much more accomodating, but my fear is that a
maintainer that goes length to sift through chaff himself
quickly runs out of time, becomes exhausted, and ends up being
careless.

Maybe I am spoiled by having only the best people around me, and
on git list.

But we are straying to a tangent.

I do not have much against an optional "only blob id" expansion
myself, as I do not see any more downside than CRLF expansion in
it.  But I suspect that once people see the $id$ expanded to
blob, they would not stop, because simply they do not understand
why blob-id and CRLF are much less evil than other things.