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Mon, 9 Nov 2026 14:53:26 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: K Jayatheerth Cc: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, git@vger.kernel.org, jltobler@gmail.com, lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com Subject: Re: [GSoC Patch v8 0/7] repo: add path keys to repo info In-Reply-To: (K. Jayatheerth's message of "Mon, 9 Nov 2026 22:22:33 +0530") References: <20260716012138.6714-1-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> <20261107160100.122243-1-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> <9582c0da-7aff-466c-a510-ce5a10054df4@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 11:53:25 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain K Jayatheerth writes: >> > - `path.superproject-root.absolute` / `path.superproject-root.relative`: >> > The root of the superproject when inside a submodule. >> >> Personally, I'd prefer "path.superproject-working-tree.*" here, though I >> see Justin thought that was a bit of a mouthful. As this command is for >> use in scripts I'd rather have a descriptive name. > > I don't have an opinion on the name itself, but, that said: > I think superproject-working-tree is a more suiting name. Syntactically you could put anything at the second level of three-level configuration variable names, but I thought we avoid '-' in configuration variable names in general. We can see that we made many mistakes in the 'maintenance.' hierarchy ... $ git grep -h -E '^`?[^ ]*::$' Documentation/config/ | grep -e - ... but nowhere else.