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

> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c
> 
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, David Lang wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, David Lang wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I cannot do otherwise than ask at this point in the debate: why isn't
>>>>> the makefile rule sufficient for your needs?  Why going through a
>>>>> complicated path that no one else will support due to its numerous
>>>>> pitfalls?
>>>>
>>>> not all uses of VCS's involve useing make
>>>
>>> Use perl then.  Or a shell script.  Or even a command.com batch script.
>>> Or your own tool.
>>
>> I would like to, however this doesn't currently integrate well with git. I've
>> been told in the past that once .gitattributes is in place then the hooks for
>> the crlf stuff can be generalized to allow for calls out to custom code to do
>> this sort of thing.
>
> And I agree that this is a perfectly sensible thing to do.  The facility
> should be there for you to apply any kind of transformation with
> external tools on data going in or out from Git.  There are good and bad
> things you can do with such a facility, but at least it becomes your
> responsibility to screw^H^H^H^Hfilter your data and not something that
> is enforced by Git itself.