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Re: [PATCH] Add keyword aliases during substitution

From: Max Bowsher <maxb1_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2006-02-16 22:36:30 CET

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Branko Čibej wrote:
> Peter Pentchev wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since I've transferred most of my local development to Subversion
>> repositores in the past year or so, there is only one thing that
>> I've missed from the CVS days - the ability to use a different
>> keyword to represent the Id tag, a keyword that is specific to
>> my repository, so it does not interfere with vendor-imported code
>> and such. Examples of these may be found as the $FreeBSD$ tag in
>> the FreeBSD.org repository, the $XFree86$ tag in the, well, XFree86
>> development, and so on :)
>>
> [etc.]
>
> Don't start from scratch. See
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=890
>
> The necessary infrastructure is now in the code. So someone has to start
> (or restart) a Custom Keywords design discussion.

How is this starting from scratch? It appears to be building on the
keywords-as-hash infrastructure already.

Given how complicated and ill-defined the concept of full custom
keywords is, it might be appropriate to implement the form Peter
suggests ahead of a some greater implementation.

Max.
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