Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

As 'ident' conversion is stateless, I do not mind too much
including it in v1.5.2-rc1.  On the other hand, the arbitrary
'filter' is quite contentious, although the character-code
conversion example I gave myself might be a good enough reason
for people to want it.  Undecided.

Like I said there are certainly plenty of good (and bad) reasons for 
using this facility, and many of them we might not imagine now.  Since 
the code is already written I think you should include it.


Nicolas