From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: jn/config-ignore-inaccessible (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #10; Mon, 29)) Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 14:41:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20130507184120.GB5776@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <7vppxdgife.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87y5bvyw7j.fsf@hexa.v.cablecom.net> <20130504201414.GA2420@elie.Belkin> <7vwqreull0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Thomas Rast , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 07 20:41:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UZmpK-0004SR-UX for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 20:41:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752938Ab3EGSlX (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 May 2013 14:41:23 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:50064 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751602Ab3EGSlW (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 May 2013 14:41:22 -0400 Received: (qmail 27890 invoked by uid 102); 7 May 2013 18:41:43 -0000 Received: from c-71-206-173-132.hsd1.va.comcast.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (71.206.173.132) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Tue, 07 May 2013 13:41:43 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 07 May 2013 14:41:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vwqreull0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 08:55:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2013-05-03#l3022 > >> http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2013-05-03#l3111 > > > > I think the approach taken in the patch above is a good one. If > > /etc/gitconfig contains important configuration, it is still not > > ignored, errors other than permissions reading ~/.gitconfig are > > still fatal, and permissions errors accessing ~/.gitconfig are no > > longer fatal because they are expected as something very common > > in normal setups. > > OK. Let's cook it in 'next' for a while and then decide what to do > post 1.8.3; I am perfectly fine with making it graduate to 'master' > immediately after 1.8.3 if everybody thinks this is a good idea. FWIW, I do think this is the best path. I don't like the complex "which errors are fatal" rule, but I think it is easily the most practical solution. -Peff