From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikolai Weibull Subject: Re: Get rid of .git/branches/ and .git/remotes/? Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:12:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20051122191234.GA9040@puritan.petwork> References: <20051122041843.9436.qmail@science.horizon.com> <4382DFDA.6040306@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 22 20:17:07 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EedZJ-0006A0-4Q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:12:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965105AbVKVTMh (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:12:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965124AbVKVTMh (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:12:37 -0500 Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com ([195.54.107.73]:16035 "EHLO mxfep02.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965105AbVKVTMg (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:12:36 -0500 Received: from ironport.bredband.com ([195.54.107.82] [195.54.107.82]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20051122191234.NJDE9142.mxfep02.bredband.com@ironport.bredband.com> for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:12:34 +0100 Received: from c-fa2b70d5.018-10-67626713.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO puritan.petwork) ([213.112.43.250]) by ironport.bredband.com with ESMTP; 22 Nov 2005 20:11:51 +0100 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-IronPort-AV: i="3.97,362,1125871200"; d="scan'208"; a="12211269:sNHT33422472" Received: by puritan.petwork (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D4CEAADFE5; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:12:34 +0100 (CET) To: git@vger.kernel.org Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4382DFDA.6040306@op5.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}