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

René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles.  It is
limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though.
E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like output,
and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes.  That can be fixed
in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of
git-log, too.

Interesting.  I however wonder if "specfile" is a good name for
this attribute, although I admit I do not think of anything
better offhand.

Why did it take me that long to come up with such a simple patch?
There was a vacation and a feature freeze in between, but above all
I was only recently able to convince myself (using ugly code) that
format_commit_message() can indeed be made to expand placeholders
to git-describe strings..

Thanks.  Will take a look.