From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: git stash deletes/drops changes of Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 12:14:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20130524101416.GO12252@machine.or.cz> References: <87sj1d5ous.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> <7vd2shcnx7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87obc15mq5.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> <20130523235711.GJ12252@machine.or.cz> <20130524082253.GY27005@serenity.lan> <20130524094006.GM12252@machine.or.cz> <20130524100612.GA27005@serenity.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Rast , Junio C Hamano , Jim Greenleaf , git@vger.kernel.org To: John Keeping X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 24 12:14:31 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ufp0z-0005qw-UX for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 24 May 2013 12:14:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760080Ab3EXKOV (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 May 2013 06:14:21 -0400 Received: from pasky.or.cz ([84.242.80.195]:48745 "EHLO machine.or.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754604Ab3EXKOU (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 May 2013 06:14:20 -0400 Received: by machine.or.cz (Postfix, from userid 2001) id A75B117000A6; Fri, 24 May 2013 12:14:16 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130524100612.GA27005@serenity.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:06:12AM +0100, John Keeping wrote: > I don't see anything wrong with having a template file documenting the > parameters, but I think it's important that there are sensible defaults > in place when the user's configuration file does not specify a value for > a parameter. It wasn't clear to me from your definition that there were > defaults to be overridden by the user's configuration file, as opposed > to forcing the user to define certain values and causing an error if > those are not defined. That's the case in plenty of situations - when specifying usernames and passwords and server hostnames, paths to cross-compiling environments that pretty much everyone has at a different place, and so on. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken