[RFI] bzr-keywords & forward compatibility

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 02:49:43PM +1000 I heard the voice of
Ian Clatworthy, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
>    User (all of it)
>    User-Name (just the name)
>    User-Email (just the email)
> 
>    But I wonder whether the first is really needed if we
>    provide the latter 2.

Yes.  It's simpler, for what I'd expect a reasonably common case.
What's it cost?


> 2. Multiple author handling. Right now, Author is the first
>    author in the list and there's no way to get at the others.
>    One simplistic answer is more keywords like:

That's ugly.  Now I have to guess how many there will be to display
them all?  What's the use-case for wanting to show the third author
rather than "all the authors"?


> 3. What's missing?

You have

>  Revision-Id    the unique id of the revision that last changed the file

but no corresponding revno.



As a side note, keywords are a bit of functionality I really want.
But only being able to define filter rules globally for everything I
touch makes it something I'm unwilling to experiment with more than
momentarily, and various filter bugs (like the fact that the only way
I can see new/updated expansions is to create a new branch; non-filter
bugs like 107591 keep me from even doing a slightly less stupid
hackaround) keep it from being interesting during those moments :(


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