From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] allow user aliases for the --author parameter Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:36:43 -0400 Message-ID: <20080828213643.GC27867@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20080822165047.GA3339@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vzln492pc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080822211902.GA31884@coredump.intra.peff.net> <48B3B8B0.4020609@fastmail.fm> <7vsksr1hgt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080827001944.GA7347@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v7ia3rnnq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <48B52037.7030405@fastmail.fm> <7vr68aqt3h.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <48B65922.4050005@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 28 23:37:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYpBf-0006CA-Ev for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:37:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753986AbYH1Vgq (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:36:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753563AbYH1Vgq (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:36:46 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:3978 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752005AbYH1Vgp (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:36:45 -0400 Received: (qmail 7954 invoked by uid 111); 28 Aug 2008 21:36:44 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:36:44 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:36:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48B65922.4050005@fastmail.fm> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:52:02AM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 27.08.2008 19:13: > > Michael J Gruber writes: > > > >> People who don't use this feature don't have any entries and don't pay > >> anything. People who use this feature and have a moderate number of > >> entries don't pay a recognizable price. People who use this feature and > >> have a vast amount of entries should be told to implement an alias file > >> parser ;) > > > > That attitude is Ok for an experimental piece of software. Perhaps it was > > Ok for git 18 months ago as well, but not anymore. > > I probably should have put the ;) in emphasis. This is not my attitude. Hmm. It sounds like we your interest is moving towards Junio's approach, so maybe this doesn't matter. But I actually think your statement above made some sense. I think we will be providing multiple sources of alias information in the long run anyway, so this becomes just another source. As a source, it has some advantages (it is simple to setup in your existing git config, and does not require an extra file), and some disadvantages (it does not scale as well as some other solutions). > P.S.: This is "reply all" to a mail sent off-list probably meant for the > list, but I didn't want to cc: the list without your consent (since I'm > quoting you). I'm sorry for this confusion. I'm sure it's not your MUAs > and confident it's not mine, which leaves gmane.. I am putting it back on-list. :) -Peff