Re: [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files)

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Ren? Scharfe wrote:

quoted

Add support for a new attribute, specfile.  Files marked as being
specfiles are expanded by git-archive when they are written to an
archive.  It has no effect on worktree files.  The same placeholders
as those for the option --pretty=format: of git-log et al. can be
used.

I almost like this approach.  Would it not be a little more useful if you 
could mark the placeholders with something like "$Format: xyz %c$"?  
Because then we could just shut up all those complainers that want to 
insert some revision specific information into the files, without 
affecting formats for printf().

Of course, the idea to keep the worktree unaffected is brilliant.

I think a bit more layering would be helpful: when using git-svn, one
would want to have things like $Id$ and $Date$ expanded, so maybe
attribute specs like

somefile: expandmarkers="$Date: %aD$ $Id: ....$"

would be nice having.  In the case of git-svn, I would expect them to
be generated from git-svn from the respective svn properties, so that
the user is not bothered with figuring out the awful $Id$ and whatever
strings.

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