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["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > 
> > If we are going to start parsing the message content we probably
> > should have some sort of escape that allows the frontend to protect
> > some of it from the replacement parsing, so literal :n can be passed
> > through at the same time that a different :n is updated with the
> > revision identifier.
> 
> Would it be better to explicitly mark commit messages needing expansion?
> By using a 'template' command in place of a 'data' command say?

How does that help escaping ":8080" in a commit message that needs
this replacement for ":43" but not for ":8080" (as the latter was
literally in the source)?

-- 
Shawn.