From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:23:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46250175.4020300@dawes.za.net> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Rogan Dawes wrote: > > Well, if the only keyword we support is $BlobId:$, then if the tree/object > hasn't changed, then we still don't need to touch the object. > > Not so? Correct. However, is that actually a useful expansion? Most of the time, I'd expect people to want things like "last committer, time, story of their life" etc.. I don't think the SHA1 ID's are pretty enough that anybody would ever want to see them. But yes, they are certainly stable. Linus