From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:34:47 +0100 Message-ID: <4381F727.2090005@op5.se> References: <200511211644.16789.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 21 17:38:41 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeEd2-0007bX-TC for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:34:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932368AbVKUQet (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:34:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932376AbVKUQet (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:34:49 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:57730 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932368AbVKUQet (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:34:49 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.19] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191C06BD01 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:34:48 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > What do people say? Is it useless to move that information into the > config, where it can be queried/replaced/set/removed by the config "API", You're thinking the wrong way around. "Is it useless so we should refrain?" is not the same as "is it useful enough to do?". > or should we continue with two incompatible ad-hoc formats? (If that > sounds biased, it was not meant to be.) > I don't use Cogito myself so I'm not aware of what incompatibilities there are. However, it's a user-friendliness layer, so it can choose to do things differently if it wants to, but changing how the plumbing works to match the porcelain seems wrong to me. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231