From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:23:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080619012310.GA25307@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806181721580.2907@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 05:23:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Have you read "man git-config" lately?
>
> That whole program is there just for scripting. Of _course_ it talks about
> the machine format!
Forget the command git-config; all of the config _variables_ are
documented in "foo.bar" form. Name one place in all of the documentation
where the user can find out about core.pager, but the "foo.bar" form is
not used.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-19 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 22:29 [PATCH 0/4] Add 'core.fsyncobjectfiles' config option Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] Split up default "user" " Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine Jeff King
2008-06-18 22:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 23:13 ` Jeff King
2008-06-18 23:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-19 0:08 ` Jeff King
2008-06-19 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-19 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-19 2:10 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-19 0:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-19 1:23 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-06-19 0:18 ` Eric Raible
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