Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
- Date
- Oct 19, 2007, 11:58 UTC
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:21:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I'd love it, but the way our current SHA1 parser works, I don't think it > > can really do it. > > > > Basically, we currently assume that a SHA1 expression always expands to a > > *single* SHA1. > > Ah, right. I hadn't thought of that. While it would be a nice > convenience feature, it's probably not worth the deep internal hackery > that would be required.
What about a preprocessor that could match <1>@{<2>..<3>} in the argument list and substitute that with <1>@{<2>}..<1>@{<3>} before it is actually parsed?
Nicolas