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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: deprecate using "" as boolean value false.
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:21:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vskzzaoop.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080211082216.e9212310.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (Christian Couder's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:22:16 +0100")

Why do you call this a "fix", when the only effect of it is
breaking people's existing setups?  Wouldn't a set of proper
fixes to the config parsing callback functions solve all the
issues without having any downsides?

I think you are wasting both of our times.  You could be doing
the real fix instead.  Or I could be spending time on it,
instead of repeating to you how mistaken this approach is.

So far I've seen and queued only two usable fixes since that
[Janitor] request.  Maybe I should have ignored all this
discussion in this thread and spent my time on doing the
Janitorial work.  The reason I joined the thread was that I
hoped that I could save people like _you_ from wasting _your_
time in the discussion, instead of making better use of it by
doing audits and fixes.

Grrr.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-11  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-11  7:22 [PATCH] config: deprecate using "" as boolean value false Christian Couder
2008-02-11  8:21 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-02-11  8:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-11  9:22     ` [PATCH] teach config parsers to diagnose missing values Junio C Hamano

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