From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:58:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710190753040.19446@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20071019042930.GA16487@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> 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