Re: [PATCH/RFC/GSoC 0/2] add a add.patch config variable

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Dominik,

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Dominik Fischer wrote:

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> > any transition plan would be far more painful than the possible benefits
> I agree, it cannot be expected that every external script sets
> GIT_RECURSION_DEPTH before issuing any command just because of this little
> option.
> 
> As an exercise for GSoC, I implemented it nonetheless to get more familiar
> with the code base and testing system and receive some feedback. Perhaps the
> counter can even be useful for some actually significant use case in the
> future.

Maybe. We come up with tons of patches all the time, and most do not make
it into the code base, though.

I still think it was a valuable thing to do: you are now much more
familiar with Git's code base. And you now know why the proposed solution
won't work. And I guess the alias is what you'll end up using.

Ciao,
Johannes