From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Yakup Akbay <yakbay@ubicom.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git config does not reuse section name
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:54:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfx7m1p4a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0912071223l21c70e2ax9b0e3c9976ae9d7@mail.gmail.com> (Sverre Rabbelier's message of "Mon\, 7 Dec 2009 21\:23\:20 +0100")
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 21:04, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> If I recall correctly, this hasn't been even noticed/reported/recognized
>> as an issue, ever since the "git repo-config" was introduced (which later
>> was renamed to "git config").
>
> I poked Dscho about it at some point.
>
>> Dscho, do you remember details?
>
> He told me that the 'git config' code is so horrible that it's
> nigh-impossible to change the behavior, hence why he didn't do it :P.
Hmm, sad. I thought it was mostly his code...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-07 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-07 17:06 [BUG] git config does not reuse section name Yakup Akbay
2009-12-07 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-07 20:23 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-12-07 20:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-12-08 2:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-12-08 2:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-12-08 3:27 ` Junio C Hamano
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