From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@MIT.EDU>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] Docs: config: send-email config options included
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:06:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080928190615.GA32380@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0DC4F74-6157-44AE-A25A-4C74A415CDDA@mit.edu>
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:03:59PM -0500, Michael Witten wrote:
>> Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily complete.
>> For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed
>> description
>> in the appropriate manual page. You will find a description of non-core
>> porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain
>> documentation.
>
> I think config.txt is not the place to put this stuff (though I've only
> given it a quick glance), and include:: will just cause us to litter
> the place with tool-config.txt include files, which looks yucky and is
> subject to neglect.
Ah, I hadn't read that before. So yes, I agree that it should go into
git-send-email.txt. I do think putting a note (similar to the one for
imap.*) into config.txt would be a nice addition, but it is obviously
independent of your other changes.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-28 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-28 1:09 [PATCH 1/8] Docs: send-email's usage text and man page mention same options Michael Witten
2008-09-28 1:09 ` [PATCH 2/8] Docs: send-email usage text much sexier Michael Witten
2008-09-28 1:09 ` [PATCH 3/8] Docs: send-email: Man page option ordering Michael Witten
2008-09-28 1:09 ` [PATCH 4/8] send-email: change --no-validate to boolean --[no-]validate Michael Witten
2008-09-28 1:09 ` [PATCH 5/8] Docs: send-email: --chain_reply_to -> --[no-]chain-reply-to Michael Witten
2008-09-28 1:09 ` [PATCH 6/8] Docs: Arranged config options in man page Michael Witten
2008-09-28 1:09 ` [PATCH 7/8] Docs: send-email: Added all config variables to man end Michael Witten
2008-09-28 1:09 ` [PATCH 8/8] Docs: config: send-email config options included Michael Witten
2008-09-28 3:24 ` Jeff King
2008-09-28 19:03 ` Michael Witten
2008-09-28 19:06 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-09-28 3:18 ` [PATCH 7/8] Docs: send-email: Added all config variables to man end Jeff King
2008-09-28 19:03 ` Michael Witten
2008-09-28 19:08 ` Jeff King
2008-09-28 3:15 ` [PATCH 6/8] Docs: Arranged config options in man page Jeff King
2008-09-28 19:03 ` Michael Witten
2008-09-28 4:51 ` [PATCH] bash completion: Add --[no-]-validate to "git send-email" Teemu Likonen
2008-09-28 12:55 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-09-28 8:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] Docs: send-email: Man page option ordering Jakub Narebski
2008-09-28 19:04 ` Michael Witten
2008-09-29 0:10 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-29 0:36 ` Jeff King
2008-09-29 5:08 ` [RFC 6/9] Docs: send-email: Remove unnecessary config variable description Michael Witten
2008-09-29 5:08 ` [RFC 7/9] send-email: Completely replace --signed-off-cc with --signed-off-by-cc Michael Witten
2008-09-29 5:08 ` [RFC 8/9] Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for --help text Michael Witten
2008-09-29 5:08 ` [RFC 9/9] Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for man text Michael Witten
2008-09-29 16:25 ` [RFC 8/9] Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for --help text Jeff King
[not found] ` <1222664781-55763-1-git-send-email-mfwitten@mit.edu>
[not found] ` <1222664781-55763-2-git-send-email-mfwitten@mit.edu>
2008-09-29 16:29 ` [RFC 7/9] send-email: Completely replace --signed-off-cc with --signed-off-by-cc Jeff King
2008-09-29 17:41 ` [RFC2 8/9] Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for man text Michael Witten
2008-09-29 17:41 ` [RFC2 9/9] send-email: signedoffcc -> signedoffbycc, but handle both Michael Witten
2008-09-29 17:44 ` Jeff King
2008-09-30 12:58 ` [PATCH 1/9] Docs: send-email's usage text and man page mention same options Michael Witten
2008-09-30 12:58 ` [PATCH 2/9] Docs: send-email usage text much sexier Michael Witten
2008-09-30 12:58 ` [PATCH 3/9] Docs: send-email: Man page option ordering Michael Witten
2008-09-30 12:58 ` [PATCH 4/9] send-email: change --no-validate to boolean --[no-]validate Michael Witten
2008-09-30 12:58 ` [PATCH 5/9] Docs: send-email: --chain_reply_to -> --[no-]chain-reply-to Michael Witten
2008-09-30 12:58 ` [PATCH 6/9] Docs: send-email: Remove unnecessary config variable description Michael Witten
2008-09-30 12:58 ` [PATCH 7/9] Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for --help text Michael Witten
2008-09-30 12:58 ` [PATCH 8/9] Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for man text Michael Witten
2008-09-30 12:58 ` [PATCH 9/9] send-email: signedoffcc -> signedoffbycc, but handle both Michael Witten
2008-10-01 3:27 ` [PATCH 3/9] Docs: send-email: Man page option ordering Jeff King
2008-10-01 20:34 ` Michael Witten
2008-10-01 20:36 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-28 5:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] Docs: send-email's usage text and man page mention same options Miklos Vajna
2008-09-28 19:04 ` Michael Witten
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