Re: Get rid of .git/branches/ and .git/remotes/?

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org>]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Excellent error messages aren't good enough. It's ok for Python, since
> that's a programming language. We can expect infinitely more from
> programmers than we can from users.

A semi-related question: who is the target audience of git?  I get the
feeling that most users will be programmers, so that's kind of a
non-argument (even though I agree with your standpoint).

Furthermore, does it really matter what format .git/config has now that
we have git-config-set?  Shouldn't all access go through that command,
so that we can change to some other format (YAML, XML, STUPIDABBR) if we
so desire without breaking anything?

Finally, a plain-text easy-to-edit format is great, and that's a good
enough argument not to use indentation (as has already been pointed out,
indentation is not always what it seems).

        nikolai

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