From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>, junkio@cox.net, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 13:26:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060509112641.GB3228@admingilde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605082007100.3718@g5.osdl.org>
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hoi :)
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:08:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > What's the advantage of section quotation marks over just allowing these
> > characters in regular section names? To be specific, what is wrong with:
> >
> > [jc/show-branch-dense]
>
> This would _suck_
>
> What if you have a branch called "core"? Not all all unlikely.
>
> Think about what a section like
>
> [core]
>
> really means.
>
> Plus I really want to not be case sensitive by default. Case sensitivity
> really is _not_ normal for this kind of config file syntax.
So why is everybody trying to munch all branch related data into
one .ini style config file?
why not simply use the mechanisms we use elsewhere and build something
like our remotes or the new HEAD file?
--
Martin Waitz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-09 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-07 21:34 Implementing branch attributes in git config Pavel Roskin
2006-05-07 22:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-08 0:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-08 0:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-08 0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-08 0:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-08 1:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-08 1:21 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-05-08 1:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-08 1:55 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-05-08 9:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-08 12:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-08 15:15 ` Pavel Roskin
[not found] ` <20060507203458.439d8815.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-08 0:34 ` sean
2006-05-08 0:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-08 1:04 ` Pavel Roskin
[not found] ` <20060507211145.36fb1be4.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-08 1:11 ` sean
2006-05-08 0:36 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-05-08 0:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-08 1:27 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <20060507213445.66a2a3b0.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-08 1:34 ` sean
2006-05-08 1:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <20060507214429.623905a6.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-08 1:44 ` sean
2006-05-08 2:29 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <20060507223918.6112f0c1.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-08 2:39 ` sean
2006-05-08 23:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
[not found] ` <20060508193005.40f249a1.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-08 23:30 ` sean
2006-05-08 23:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <20060508200826.2b0f34a6.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-09 0:08 ` sean
2006-05-09 0:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-09 0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20060508204933.539ddd8b.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-09 0:49 ` sean
2006-05-09 0:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 1:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-09 1:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 1:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-09 5:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 1:57 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20060508224721.045a48fb.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-09 2:47 ` sean
2006-05-09 3:08 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20060508230752.43118643.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-09 3:07 ` sean
2006-05-09 4:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-09 4:28 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-09 11:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-09 15:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-09 18:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20060509154459.40cc0d13.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-09 19:44 ` sean
[not found] ` <20060509180955.373a2c1d.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-09 22:09 ` sean
2006-05-09 22:42 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <20060509184519.5a707231.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-09 22:45 ` sean
[not found] ` <20060509190708.4ee6656e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-09 23:07 ` sean
2006-05-09 23:23 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-05-10 0:17 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20060509210857.27df014e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-10 1:08 ` sean
2006-05-10 2:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-10 7:19 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-10 11:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-10 15:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-10 16:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-10 23:17 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-10 23:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-11 0:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-11 9:51 ` Jeff King
2006-05-11 11:39 ` Jeff King
2006-05-11 0:13 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-11 10:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-11 1:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-05-11 6:02 ` Jakub Narebski
[not found] ` <20060509213853.0fd8af0f.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-10 1:38 ` sean
2006-05-11 17:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 4:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-05-09 11:26 ` Martin Waitz [this message]
2006-05-09 11:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-08 23:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
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