Re: Weird shallow-tree conversion state, and branches of shallow trees

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2007, 21:51 UTC
Message-ID: <200704172251.20831.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xcqofru.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tuesday 2007, April 17, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
> > However, it's missing the point to take my example as an unsolved
> > problem - there are plenty of ways I can get what I want; I brought
> > it up merely as a counter to the statement that there were no valid
> > situations for wanting keyword expansion.
>
> That's actually quite different from what you said.

Sorry; I didn't express it very well - the thing that started all this was the statement that there was no valid use case for keywords. I just gave an example. I felt that the thread was moving away from keywords and towards solving my particular problem - which is all appreciated, but wasn't the point. Running makefile recipes or extra scripts are all valid methods and pragmatic working-with-what-git-does-now solutions. I wanted to distinguish between what I could do now and what I could do with keyword support.

> You were claiming that with built-in keyword expansion what you
> want becomes /simpler/.  I questioned that.

Well it does from the point of view of pressing "print".

> Maybe it's just me, who is not a GUI person [*1*], but to me,
> having to start inkscape, mouse around to find the "Print"
> button and print feels much more cumbersome than simply typing
> "make print".

Again, that was addressing my particular problem - good stuff. However, it's just luck that inkscape has a batch mode - there's no guarantee for that.

I could just swap the example around a bit, what about if it was an OpenOffice document that I want to have transparent compression/decompression and I've set the properties tag to contain "$Id$". There is no amount of scripting that will enable batch printing of that.

Anyway - I've wasted enough of your time with this foolishness now. It's dropped, consider me silenced on this subject ;-)

Andy

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