From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 22:42:00 GMT Subject: ms/customizable-ident-expansion (was: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2021, #03; Fri, 10)) Message-ID: <211212.86fsqxa19o.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Fri, Dec 10 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote: [CC-ing Maksym, the topic author] > * ms/customizable-ident-expansion (2021-09-01) 1 commit > - keyword expansion: make "$Id$" string configurable > > Instead of "$Id$", user-specified string (like $FreeBSD$) can be > used as an in-blob placeholder for keyword expansion. > > Will discard. > Stalled for too long. > cf. > cf. <211101.86fssf3bn3.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> > source: I'd like to see this go in, not because I'd personally find it useful, but mainly because I didn't find anything wrong with it (per my review id [1] linked above), and more importantly because the saga ending here seems rather unfriendly to a first-time contributor. Wasn't the "stalled for too long" mainly a victim of timing? I.e. that it happened to be submitted/discussed around the end of the last release cycle? Maksym: Are you interested in pursuing this still? I think per Junio's[2] an updated commit message describing some of the use-case (and in particular how/why .gitattributes v.s. a git config setting is needed) might be enough to help move this forward. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/211101.86fssf3bn3.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/ 2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqwnlito0b.fsf@gitster.g/