From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Joerg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: retry acquiring config.lock, configurable via core.configLockTimeout
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 21:23:14 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875x47u3il.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f449d0db-0434-f870-c69f-793f2b096816@gmx.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Thu, 28 May 2026 13:51:42 +0200 (CEST)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> Footnote *1*: In general, I am quite wary of unit-less numbers in
> configurations.
Hear, hear.
I do not like unit-less names for variables that store numbers, not
just configuration but in-code variables. In the longer run we want
to clean these up. In-code variables are much easier to clean-up
than end-user facing configuration variable names, of course.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-28 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-03 10:01 [PATCH] config: retry acquiring config.lock for 100ms Joerg Thalheim
2026-04-03 17:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-08 10:34 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-05-11 2:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-11 7:33 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-05-11 9:06 ` Jörg Thalheim
2026-05-11 10:01 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-05-17 11:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2026-05-17 13:21 ` [PATCH v2] config: retry acquiring config.lock, configurable via core.configLockTimeout Joerg Thalheim
2026-05-18 0:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-18 8:07 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-05-28 11:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2026-05-28 12:23 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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