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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Phil Pennock <phil@apcera.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: make remote_heads config setting work.
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:56:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121108165648.GG15560@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121105235047.GA78156@redoubt.spodhuis.org>

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:50:47PM -0500, Phil Pennock wrote:

> Git configuration items can not contain underscores in their name; the
> 'remote_heads' feature can not be enabled on a per-repository basis with
> that name.
> 
> This changes the git-config option to be `gitweb.remoteheads` but does
> not change the gitweb.conf option, to avoid backwards compatibility
> issues.  We strip underscores from keys before looking through
> git-config output for them.

Makes sense. Thanks for considering the backwards compatibility angle.
Hopefully we can avoid adding names with underscores in the future, but I
think the mapping of "remote_head -> remotehead" is obvious enough that
we do not need to worry about deprecating and replacing the old name.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-08 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-05 23:50 [PATCH] gitweb: make remote_heads config setting work Phil Pennock
2012-11-08 16:56 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-11-09  4:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-09 16:37   ` Jeff King
2012-11-20 22:21     ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2012-11-21 19:31       ` Jeff King

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