Re: Get rid of .git/branches/ and .git/remotes/?

From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org>
Date: Nov 22, 2005, 19:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20051122191234.GA9040@puritan.petwork>
In-Reply-To: <4382DFDA.6040306@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Excellent error messages aren't good enough. It's ok for Python, since
> that's a programming language. We can expect infinitely more from
> programmers than we can from users.

A semi-related question: who is the target audience of git? I get the feeling that most users will be programmers, so that's kind of a non-argument (even though I agree with your standpoint).

Furthermore, does it really matter what format .git/config has now that we have git-config-set? Shouldn't all access go through that command, so that we can change to some other format (YAML, XML, STUPIDABBR) if we so desire without breaking anything?

Finally, a plain-text easy-to-edit format is great, and that's a good enough argument not to use indentation (as has already been pointed out, indentation is not always what it seems).

        nikolai

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