Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Apr 17, 2007, 21:00 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqslay1zty.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200704171041.46176.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:

> This patch adds expansion of keywords support.

I didn't get time to read the whole thread, but just my 2 cents:

Did you have a look at the way Mercurial deals with this?

They have a system where files can be ran through arbitrary filters when commited:

  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/EncodeDecodeFilter

and it can be somehow abused to do keyword expansion.

  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/TipsAndTricks#head-f348f796b9560a1cfbdaf3f3f0f7d9d4339266e9

It surely doesn't solve all the problems mentionned in this thread, but the experience can be interesting to look at.

-- 
Matthieu

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