Re: [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files)

> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> 
> > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > 
> >> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >>> Ren? Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles.  It is 
> >>>> limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though. 
> >>>> E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like output, 
> >>>> and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes.  That can be fixed 
> >>>> in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of 
> >>>> git-log, too.
> >>> Interesting. I however wonder if "specfile" is a good name for this 
> >>> attribute, although I admit I do not think of anything better offhand.
> >> "releasefile", perhaps?
> > 
> > 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?