From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Waitz Subject: Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 13:26:41 +0200 Message-ID: <20060509112641.GB3228@admingilde.org> References: <7virogc90u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v1wv4c7wk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD" Cc: sean , junkio@cox.net, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 09 13:26:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdQMa-0003iP-M4 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 09 May 2006 13:26:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932282AbWEIL0p (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 07:26:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932366AbWEIL0p (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 07:26:45 -0400 Received: from admingilde.org ([213.95.32.146]:40682 "EHLO mail.admingilde.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932282AbWEIL0o (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 07:26:44 -0400 Received: from martin by mail.admingilde.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1) id 1FdQMT-0003Oa-EQ; Tue, 09 May 2006 13:26:41 +0200 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: B21B 5755 9684 5489 7577 001A 8FF1 1AC5 DFE8 0FB2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 wit= h: > >=20 > > [jc/show-branch-dense] >=20 > This would _suck_ >=20 > What if you have a branch called "core"? Not all all unlikely.=20 >=20 > Think about what a section like >=20 > [core] >=20 > really means. >=20 > Plus I really want to not be case sensitive by default. Case sensitivity= =20 > 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? --=20 Martin Waitz --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEYHxxj/Eaxd/oD7IRAr1JAJ0T6R+u84JKowbBpYWzDlYk1GnrrgCfW+B8 HAzi+9H8oJ3kcU6vOYbAyYI= =iOVi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD--