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Re: ms/customizable-ident-expansion

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Nov 1, 2021, 20:23 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> But as for the feature it's clearly useful to some, and helps SCM
> inter-op, so even if I'm also rather "meh" on it I think it would be
> good to merge it down, it's clearly very useful to its (small) target
> audience, and doesn't seem to be harming anything else.
I do not care too much how small the audiences are.

The part I do not agree with the most with this is that this allows the placeholder specified per path (because it is built with the attributes, not the configuration, mechanism). "Use this token instead of 'Id'" command line option with a configuration variable would not have had such an issue.

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  1. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2021
  2. ab/config-based-hooks-2 (was: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2021, #07; Fri, 29))Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 1, 2021
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2021
  4. ab/only-single-progress-at-once (was: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2021, #07; Fri, 29))Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 1, 2021
  5. tb/plug-pack-bitmap-leaks (was: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2021, #07; Fri, 29))Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 1, 2021
  6. tp/send-email-completion (was: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2021, #07; Fri, 29))Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 1, 2021
  7. js/scalar (was: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2021, #07; Fri, 29))Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 1, 2021
  8. ms/customizable-ident-expansion (was: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2021, #07; Fri, 29))Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 1, 2021
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2021
  10. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNov 8, 2021
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2021

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