From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] git init: activate rerere by default Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:29:18 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <81b0412b0707050610mddaf5c0w724b747fe10ed6f9@mail.gmail.com> <7vsl82dcj0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vfy42d6m0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070705214032.GB8751@steel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Riesen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 06 00:29:35 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I6ZpO-0008A7-Qx for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:29:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758461AbXGEW3c (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:29:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758018AbXGEW3b (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:29:31 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:45534 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752006AbXGEW3b (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:29:31 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Jul 2007 22:29:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp013) with SMTP; 06 Jul 2007 00:29:29 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/9qctw/IH9+chxuGP8oXPN4ijXyeiWGcCHPwb/13 /wxrABwFzTlH7M X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20070705214032.GB8751@steel.home> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Alex Riesen wrote: > Johannes Schindelin, Thu, Jul 05, 2007 21:22:43 +0200: > > Yes, templates are nice. But I don't think that templates are the way to > > go for introducing nice features as rr-cache. > > Looks like you're trying to enforce the feature, not introduce. Yes. Actually, since long I wondered if this feature should not be controlled by a core.rerere variable. > It changes the user-visible behaviour, and this can be unexpected. Yes, but I think for the better. > It is not like you see people asking question: "How do I avoid repeating > the same boring conflict?" every day on vger or irc. That is because people have been trained to cope with CVS. They do not even know rerere exists. > That said, the templates are installed with every make install (and I > suppose with every .deb and .rpm), and template is copied in every new > repo, so people will get the rr-cache sooner or later. What's wrong with > "a bit later" than "much sooner"? In the part of my reply that you conveniently scissored, I explained that it is often not "a bit later", but "never". Ciao, Dscho