From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, GIT Mailing-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a --user option to git-config
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:04:18 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707282103150.14781@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46AB7041.8070605@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Hi,
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Ramsay Jones wrote:
>
> At present, the --global option is something of a misnomer, so
> we introduce the --user option as a synonym, with the intention
> of removing the old option in the future.
Ack for the intention, except for "removing the old option in the future".
We do not need to advertise it, but breaking existing functionality, which
might be used by scripts and aliases is bad.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-28 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-28 16:35 [PATCH] Add a --user option to git-config Ramsay Jones
2007-07-28 20:04 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-07-31 21:54 ` Ramsay Jones
2007-08-01 18:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-01 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-02 19:44 ` Ramsay Jones
2007-08-02 17:20 ` Ramsay Jones
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