From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:08:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/15] user-manual: Use 'remote add' to setup push URLs
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:

>> The resulting text may read like so:
>> …
>
> 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