From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:23:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files)
Message-ID: <7vzm02klip.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <46DDE69C.1080908@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

>> Maybe we should not so much name it by purpose, but by function.  How 
>> about "substformat" for the attribute name, and replacing any 
>> $Format:blablub$ inside those files with something a la 
>> --pretty=format:blablub?
>
> I like the $Format:...$ notation.  How about naming the attribute
> "template", as that's what a thus marked file is?

Sounds good, although I suspect "template" might confuse newbies
that checkout may apply the substitution as well.  How about
something with "export" in it?  export-subst, perhaps?