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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] make two-argument fetch update remote branches
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:58:11 +0700
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> =
wrote:
>> Add a fetch.updateRemoteNamespace (or so) configuration variable tha=
t
>> defaults to false. =C2=A0When enabled, it turns on the auto-updating
>> behaviour.
>
> Would it make sense to group the pre-1.8 compatibility switches
> together in some way, if there will be several of them? Maybe
>
> [compat]
> =C2=A0 fetchUpdateRemoteNamespace =3D false
> =C2=A0 ...

It is. I was thinking of it as a group of "short"-lived configs to
help maintain backward compatibility for some time (not for ever)
until users are forced to migrate.
--=20
Duy