Re: [PATCH 3/3] builtin-merge: add support for default merge options

> as a user,
> 1) I looked how to override defaults, since merge seems to use --ff as
> default, I looked if there was any global config to override that.
> nothing found... so go back to google
> 2) I found on the web that we can set it using
> branch.branchname.mergeoptions so I said "what if I use a branch named
> *, the config file was correct and git didn't insult me so.... but not
> the expected result...
>
> since the commands have allready defaults builtin, why not storing
> thoses defaults in the config file? like this it's easier to update
> them or change the way git behave....
> JLM
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>> I think it would be much better if you did not introduce a new
>>>> configuration merge.options which is not consistent with everything else
>>>> to begin with.
>>>>
>>>> Instead, if your addition was literally to allow saying things like this,
>>>> it would be much easier to understand.
>>>>
>>>>        [branch "*"]
>>>>                mergeoptions = ...
>>>>                remote = origin
>>>>                rebase = true
>>>
>>> Okay. That's probably a more invasive patch, because a lot more code
>>> paths look at [branch ...], but I'll look into it.
>>
>> Note that you do not have to cover branch.*.remote and other things in the
>> same patch.  The first one could just handle branch.*.mergeoptions and you
>> can let later patches to implement the fallbacks for other variables.
>>
>>
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