Re: [PATCH v2 03/15] user-manual: Use 'remote add' to setup push URLs

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 10, 2013, 22:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20130210220848.GB11720@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <20130210215442.GB8000@odin.tremily.us>

W. Trevor King wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:33:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>> The resulting text may read like so:
>> …
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> I'm fine with this too, but if this is the suggested route, why bother
> with `git config` at all?  Is it just for ease of scripting?

Yes. It can also be helpful when giving help over IRC, since you can get reproducible results without assuming the user has a proper text editor set up, but that is just a special case of scripting. ;-)

For everyday interactive configuration editing, config files have some good advantages:

 - The settings are easy to read, well organized, and all in one place
 - The file can include comments.

Thanks, Jonathan

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