Re: [PATCH, 4th version] git-branch: register where to merge from, when branching off a remote branch

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 2, 2007, 11:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20070302112152.GA14377@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <45E8076F.1050606@lu.unisi.ch>

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:15:59PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > the time of branching, which seems to be the source of a lot of objects.

Err, this should be "the source of a lot of objections" of course.

> The problem is that this will pollute the configuration file a lot.
> I'm starting to wonder if all this branch information really belongs
> in .git/config at all.

I'm not sure how this pollutes any more than the existing proposal. But I have always been a bit uncomfortable with automatic editing of the user config (having used such programs in the past, it always seems to cause subtle annoyances -- however, I find I don't even use the per-repo config in most cases, but just the ~/.gitconfig).

Perhaps if we had an inclusion mechanism, all automatically written configuration could go into $GIT_DIR/auto_config with a big warning at the top, and the .git/config could include it.

Or are you concerned with just polluting the config namespace? Obviously we could store per-branch metadata somewhere else, but I think there has been a push to put it _into_ the config over the past several months, instead of in a separate file.

-Peff