Re: [RFC/PATCH 04/11] ref-filter: add 'ifexists' atom

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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Couldn't think of a better replacer, any suggestions would be welcome :)

See below.
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One way to do all of the above is ...

Note that is just "one way", not the only or not necessarily the
best.  It certainly is not the easiest, I think.

    %(if:atom)...%(endif)

might be easier to implement.

And I find it easier to read or write too. Nested parenthesis in a
format string make them really tricky. That removes the need for
escaping since the content of the if/endif is a format string like the
others, it can use the same escaping rules (IIRC, %% to escape a %).

Yeah, that is also a good point.