Re: [PATCH 0/2] Custom low-level merge driver support.

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:48:48PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> > 	[merge]
>> > 		driver = ancient merge %A %O %B
>> 
>> Why not do something like
>> 
>> 	[merge.driver]
>> 		ancient = merge %A %O %B
>
> or
>
> [merge "ancient"]
> 	driver = merge %A %O %B

Actually, I've considered the latter.

Johannes's goes against the usual three-level configuration
variable naming rules.  If you have 'user definable' part in the
name, that should be at the second level.

Which yours does.

The only reason I did not do it your way was because we would
need to have three lines per driver (one [merge "foo"] section
per driver, a "driver" line, and a blank line for readability
after that), which at the time I wrote it felt a bit wasteful,
and it was late.  But I think I like yours much better.

It probably is trivial to change the rule before it hits 'next'.