From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:27:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Tell vim the textwidth is 75.
Message-ID: <20050722212725.GJ11916@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vr7dqpmm4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:16:51PM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> Wonderful start.
> 
> Later on, Porcelains could agree on what @TOKEN@ are generally
> available, and even start using a common script to pre-fill the
> templates, like:
> 
>   $ git-fill-template-script <template> <output-file> var=val var=val...
> 
> In your example, I see AUTHOR_NAME, AUTHOR_EMAIL, and
> AUTHOR_DATE (I'd use GIT_AUTHOR_NAME etc to match existing
> environment variables, though) would be something that are
> probably common across Porcelains, and the Porcelain would not
> even have to bother passing them as the command argument to
> fill-template.

Good idea. More interesting exercise would be to make a script which
extracts the values back after the user had a chance to touch it.

> About FILELIST, the default would be to do "git-diff-cache --name-only
> HEAD", but if a Porcelain keeps track of "modified" files differently
> it can be overridden by passing FILELIST as an explicit parameter.

Cogito shows '[NMD] filename' in place of @FILELIST@.

This brings me to another subject, M and N are pretty hard to
distinguish visually without close inspection of the output. What about
switching to use A instead of N everywhere?

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