From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a --user option to git-config Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:04:18 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <46AB7041.8070605@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , GIT Mailing-list To: Ramsay Jones X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 28 22:04:48 2007 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 1IEsWn-0000P9-4i for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:04:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755085AbXG1UEg (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:04:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755072AbXG1UEg (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:04:36 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:55365 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755056AbXG1UEf (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:04:35 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2007 20:04:33 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp018) with SMTP; 28 Jul 2007 22:04:33 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19hNQp+JLJh7YbFIaSPF+vvcuTEranPli6fTgUYQO KacSUaVHMsyzEi X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <46AB7041.8070605@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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