From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:42:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c
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.