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Re: Git-Mediawiki : cloning a set of pages

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 8, 2011, 17:13 UTC
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<20110608171338.GA3917@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:04:27PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 17:19, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > Maybe it would be even simpler and more flexible to give clone a "-c"
> > flag that writes specific config variables in the newly-created
> > repository.
> 
> This makes a lot of sense. What about a use case like git-svn supports
> currently, where you want to indicate "use the default
> trunk/branches/tags setup"? Yes, you could do `git clone -c defaults
> svn://example.com` and then git-remote-svn can set the relevant config
> options itself. The only downside is that git-remote-svn then needs to
> unset 'defaults' and set the appropriate values itself (to avoid
> cluttering the config file). Thoughts?

Yeah, I'm not sure. There is a similar case in the mediawiki helper itself, too. If I say:

  git clone -c mediawiki.pagesfiles /path/to/pages mediawiki::...

Should that add config that looks at /path/to/pages every time I fetch? Should it parse the pages file and load it into the config file as a set of config options? Should it copy the pages file into the .git directory and rewrite the config option to point to the local version?

So I think that while setting config options may be useful for some things, the right model for other things is more like a command-line option. Maybe we need to offer both forms.

-Peff
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  1. Claire FousseJun 8, 2011
  2. Jeff KingJun 8, 2011
  3. Sverre RabbelierJun 8, 2011
  4. Jeff KingJun 8, 2011
  5. Jeff KingJun 9, 2011
  6. 01/10 strbuf_split: add a max parameterJeff King, Jun 9, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2011
  8. Jeff KingJun 13, 2011
  9. 02/10 fix "git -c" parsing of values with equals signsJeff King, Jun 9, 2011
  10. 03/10 config: die on error in command-line configJeff King, Jun 9, 2011
  11. 04/10 config: avoid segfault when parsing command-line configJeff King, Jun 9, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2011
  13. Jeff KingJun 13, 2011
  14. 05/10 strbuf: allow strbuf_split to work on non-strbufsJeff King, Jun 9, 2011
  15. 06/10 config: use strbuf_split_str instead of a temporary strbufJeff King, Jun 9, 2011
  16. 07/10 parse-options: add OPT_STRING_LIST helperJeff King, Jun 9, 2011
  17. 08/10 remote: use new OPT_STRING_LISTJeff King, Jun 9, 2011
  18. 09/10 config: make git_config_parse_parameter a public functionJeff King, Jun 9, 2011
  19. 10/10 clone: accept config options on the command lineJeff King, Jun 9, 2011
  20. Bert WesargJun 9, 2011
  21. Jeff KingJun 9, 2011
  22. Jeff KingJun 9, 2011
  23. Matthieu MoyJun 9, 2011
  24. Jakub NarebskiJun 8, 2011
  25. Claire FousseJun 9, 2011

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