From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:06:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704202203200.4504@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqhiwky4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The point of my comment was that with Andy's definition of when
> the "external tools" should trigger, that CPU serial number
> embedder would _NOT_ trigger for a path when you switch branches
> that have the same contents at that path.  External tools can do
> stupid things and that is what you are calling the rope.  But
> the case I am talking about is that we deliberately do _not_
> call external tools, so even if external tools can do sensible
> things if given a chance to, they are not given a chance to do
> so, and deciding not to call them in some cases is made by us.

And that's a fairly acceptable limitation IMHO, which doesn't make the 
thing any less useful for many cases.  We just need to document it 
appropriately.


Nicolas