From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fhigh-b4-smtp.messagingengine.com (fhigh-b4-smtp.messagingengine.com [202.12.124.155]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD5DE3A7F5D for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2026 22:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=202.12.124.155 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780958198; cv=none; b=V2Z8tfM3QkvJPHRVlPs4QOgmrqfAWVWWKhk8TNlDSBMtBwagK1s5otecGDfhsG0vhk5zpnUniGTGHQs6iz4Ps98xOvgMqul6tZ+WZrfkCt+0pXEYrD2wPyjb20cUHjc4CrHNSkfU9aUpQPF4OTcXF9jX45VwKib+ygge2WmAQ+4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780958198; c=relaxed/simple; bh=38oyJm89f+opIH8Sg110tuXOsbAhex2BqOovL3a0WiI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=K5x/R02WMvYntFLcqNZy8zsa3LpkmIw5xcxyEJEqNEoyi15VlAARjtF4YJKfXytN5FAmIDHqk0ekUmZa6ueOtFP2fVorF3pE3+PIcCpFlIGYBQpkf0V4TjmsRIaoHTG2RCMsfWKh8a5+S7YyLtZQnalNE2FnDghrzFq88WTvBJQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b=k5vVDbI9; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=messagingengine.com header.i=@messagingengine.com header.b=ecuInsHM; arc=none smtp.client-ip=202.12.124.155 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="k5vVDbI9"; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=messagingengine.com header.i=@messagingengine.com header.b="ecuInsHM" Received: from phl-compute-06.internal (phl-compute-06.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailfhigh.stl.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B51447A011F; Mon, 8 Jun 2026 18:36:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phl-frontend-02 ([10.202.2.161]) by phl-compute-06.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:36:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=cc :cc:content-type:content-type:date:date:from:from:in-reply-to :in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references:reply-to:subject :subject:to:to; s=fm3; t=1780958195; x=1781044595; bh=hxRfiq4x2b SjDkxxiQbFq6IFUJhABLTHw3Mc+1v/3dI=; b=k5vVDbI9O6kaIJ3aHyq8FF0e20 bBOSi9YhVYdKgf15FMF6MWbW3Vjfz5AbYh/swvo4GCm+ycCk/AM0NN7PtVe3CtYJ yKHvSfAcrhYpRWybB1MnhDuxJmuSYslB4l81LT0AyzWNk0gnpmbmDbpyGDVjnlWO BipIUaxybDb5qRDW/2uAn+6ulju9/GAk/I5c6wu6OBsbcNRdVzJj7sL1xncMcCRu EqhVjYKy249QkhVzS9ymG1cyxBcMunxpFewi4pzK9j6v3tZt36LWvVCH7Z4+wfqF da9B7Z0k1vWHCIuDmc0mLLNRLNytD4QSy9vu1BpFxyA/uLZVfKoyH/8bCL8A== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:cc:content-type:content-type:date:date :feedback-id:feedback-id:from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:reply-to:subject:subject:to :to:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; t= 1780958195; x=1781044595; bh=hxRfiq4x2bSjDkxxiQbFq6IFUJhABLTHw3M c+1v/3dI=; b=ecuInsHMi/69lFVOlUSJWUiERno7CoE0Jl+alrlw/5bm+T1L57T A1mpDexqWK5CYlZv874TFPjWsGBF8n9zGPRAVOvvggsUeNO0Qo2qphUEpWJlpq0B A8YS24jgHyKhej9g9aV1TnWQbr14IxI4jW/dEEm6+HkqXWo0L1dDHqKSQEIHFIev /IRi9Mbuqc73gYtoVEzliU6e+Qs4bo5GHGs1YH8JpTgg3+7EmMrMcjVGNFDb+nPC wMEWSZK05uny7+3WaEE0HWtFb2B5E7v6axQEkaEDfv2O02m+WfZZ4e7jXDqCWHE3 g72wfe+IWq6jqOb54MgbpIXgWS2pJy8m+2A== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Received: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: dmFkZTEFnHBRuAdvTqspRnC194z0/UtJPQYvw+OXodkxf3YAzEdSU9nzPmanaphnkSycnD baVdGojXIerSbH5NyZZOmcaTez5wdurKR8R/S+Uf30s54hyW6lsGg/MN35ShlUw5bArysR SUtyUb71A7xRgh1acsL5nyT1xvgYZe58wm3+yIwlFbkBTLoztNpp7hbgZRIr39gsz24i80 Dw8aWmAXz1O3fI76fXYfFZsh7iILshT5W+PmWrMG5HjndshObtwrnSrgsdBbyNmRY5aUiK 0+KkC2txgnrmlzifFj+YL5Gjm2GDmWdzVeqHwTeZjqO1uXUtKwGiS/ZSYYNA/Vwr/DbffN Tf2rjByZdQ8sOBEYikCIMypO2AdgRewo0YegkwlwfIA+iE1XQKel3hoioDB3aonrIK5SNU vROOkSdy7K8KsS2vYUIzdzrUDhGkh7bBMfZIfbZKhR/U3kPBy5QG229UFw4/5ZwRuX1dDT qgSkWgsaDiZqaAdM5AZr8gdUMA1ZSP1Q9UuQYRNqBnzj+mNZvwbCvmzGCfRwgwoxs2J588 TRvszZlYgtp5ibd090UJHgmSJXor8TAqUULkfrkTeF4tED5L+x7FkPPenWU7pn3wd58SaQ VDzR5Ru7pboZ8K9wkqOoLuzdd7AYY7YWwVEF1zsOsrbQJDMfw6zujTGYtXhQ X-ME-Proxy: Feedback-ID: if26b431b:Fastmail Received: by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Mon, 8 Jun 2026 18:36:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: K Jayatheerth Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, a3205153416@gmail.com, jltobler@gmail.com, kumarayushjha123@gmail.com, lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com, phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, sandals@crustytoothpaste.net Subject: Re: [GSoC PATCH v2 0/4] teach git repo info to handle path keys In-Reply-To: <20260605163012.181089-1-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> (K. Jayatheerth's message of "Fri, 5 Jun 2026 22:00:08 +0530") References: <20260601151950.30686-1-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> <20260605163012.181089-1-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:36:33 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain K Jayatheerth writes: > 2. Should we consider a default option? > Currently we have path.gitdir.absolute. Should we consider an > option where a plain `path.gitdir` returns some default? Probably not. It will invite folks wanting to tweak the default between absolute and relative, rendering this feature useless for robust scripting. You do not necessarily want to save typing in plumbing interface. You want to reduce ambiguity by reducing more than one ways to do a thing down to just one way, and as long as that one way is not overly verbose, you are fine.