From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:33:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704171831380.31155@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v647ulbcv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> The use case the thread you are responding to assumes that you
> do *not* have a preimage before the change.

Sure. However, see my other script to actually find the "closest version". 
It's pretty easy.

In fact, even if you don't know which file it is, we could easily first 
have a separate "try to guess filename" (based on the same kind of 
heurstics) and then dig deeper on that filename.

So I think there are better ways to get the same effect without embedding 
any information.

		Linus