From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sean Subject: Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 23:07:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1147037659.25090.25.camel@dv> <1147048587.17371.13.camel@dv> <7vfyjli9vf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vbqu9i6zl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7virogc90u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v1wv4c7wk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: junkio@cox.net, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 09 05:32:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdIxZ-0000Fr-VU for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 09 May 2006 05:32:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751356AbWEIDcS (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 23:32:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751358AbWEIDcS (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 23:32:18 -0400 Received: from bayc1-pasmtp05.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.165]:48790 "EHLO BAYC1-PASMTP05.bayc1.hotmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751356AbWEIDcR (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 23:32:17 -0400 X-Originating-IP: [69.156.138.66] X-Originating-Email: [seanlkml@sympatico.ca] Received: from linux1.attic.local ([69.156.138.66]) by BAYC1-PASMTP05.bayc1.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 8 May 2006 20:32:17 -0700 Received: from guru.attic.local (guru.attic.local [10.10.10.28]) by linux1.attic.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52771644C28; Mon, 8 May 2006 23:12:58 -0400 (EDT) To: Linus Torvalds Message-Id: <20060508230752.43118643.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.4 (GTK+ 2.8.15; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 May 2006 03:32:17.0462 (UTC) FILETIME=[2BE7B560:01C67319] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 8 May 2006 20:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 8 May 2006, sean wrote: > > > > What's the advantage of section quotation marks over just allowing these > > characters in regular section names? To be specific, what is wrong with: > > > > [jc/show-branch-dense] > > This would _suck_ > > What if you have a branch called "core"? Not all all unlikely. > > Think about what a section like > > [core] > > really means. Yeah, but the part of my message you didn't quote made it quite clear i know about this problem, what i would really propose is: [core] ... [branch.core] ... [remote.core] ... etc... > Plus I really want to not be case sensitive by default. Case sensitivity > really is _not_ normal for this kind of config file syntax. But it's not just the config file, it's also how it ends up being used on the command line.. you have to admit silent differences between these two command lines is _not_ desirable: $ git repo-config "Branch".url $ git repo-config Branch.url That can't be something you want to see either. Sean