From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 01:46:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] pretty: extract fundamental placeholders to separate function
Message-ID: <xmqqr2fzgeqn.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <8736sflya8.fsf@0x63.nu>

Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu> writes:

> Junio C Hamano writes:
>> I do not think "fundamental" is the best name for this, but I agree
>> that it would be useful to split the helpers into one that is
>> "constant across commits" and the other one that is "per commit".
>
> Any suggestions for a better name?
>
> standalone? simple? invariant? free?

If these are like %n for LF or %09 for HT, perhaps they are
constants or "literals".