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

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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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?

Could be done, but I almost think it would be better to just make the 
sha1_name.c interfaces take some extended data structure which allows 
looking up multiple SHA1's at the same time.

Sure, we'd leave the "simple" interfaces around for users that simply want 
just one SHA1 value, but that would allow us to remove duplicate code from 
revision.c and rev-parse.c. And it would allow us to generally make the 
SHA1 parsing fancier: there may well be other expressions that are worth 
doing.

		Linus