Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 18, 2007, 01:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy7kqjw4x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vejmilbyt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> I do not have much against an optional "only blob id" expansion
> myself, as I do not see any more downside than CRLF expansion in
> it...

Actually, there is one. Somebody makes a patch against a file with $id$ expanded. Gives it to somebody else who is git challenged and does not have git-apply. The patch is useless.

So it is not without more downsides than CRLF.

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