From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:45:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files)
Message-ID: <46DCF0EF.9020604@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzqb8fw2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
> 
>> The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles.  It is
>> limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though.
>> E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like output,
>> and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes.  That can be fixed
>> in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of
>> git-log, too.
> 
> Interesting.  I however wonder if "specfile" is a good name for
> this attribute, although I admit I do not think of anything
> better offhand.
> 

"releasefile", perhaps?

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