From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:16:38 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704231212260.28339@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v647ninbq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> As 'ident' conversion is stateless, I do not mind too much
> including it in v1.5.2-rc1.  On the other hand, the arbitrary
> 'filter' is quite contentious, although the character-code
> conversion example I gave myself might be a good enough reason
> for people to want it.  Undecided.

Like I said there are certainly plenty of good (and bad) reasons for 
using this facility, and many of them we might not imagine now.  Since 
the code is already written I think you should include it.


Nicolas