From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:28:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806181726550.2907@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806181721580.2907@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Nobody should ever use "git-config" normally. You should fire up your
> editor and just edit the damn file in place. But no, we don't have a
> man-page for that.
Btw, one reason people end up talking about git-config is that it's easier
to tell *other* people to "run this command" than it is to tell them to
"edit this file so it looks like <xyz>".
And I think that's understandable, but still very sad. That file was
designed to be edited by humans, and it's actually much easier to edit
that way than to do lots of "git config" runs.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-19 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 22:29 [PATCH 0/4] Add 'core.fsyncobjectfiles' config option Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] Split up default "user" " Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine Jeff King
2008-06-18 22:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 23:13 ` Jeff King
2008-06-18 23:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-19 0:08 ` Jeff King
2008-06-19 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-19 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-06-19 2:10 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-19 0:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-19 1:23 ` Jeff King
2008-06-19 0:18 ` Eric Raible
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