Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:21:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

I'd love it, but the way our current SHA1 parser works, I don't think it 
can really do it.

Basically, we currently assume that a SHA1 expression always expands to a 
*single* SHA1.

Ah, right. I hadn't thought of that. While it would be a nice
convenience feature, it's probably not worth the deep internal hackery
that would be required.

What about a preprocessor that could match <1>@{<2>..<3>} in the 
argument list and substitute that with <1>@{<2>}..<1>@{<3>} before it is 
actually parsed?


Nicolas