From: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added guilt.reusebranch configuration option.
Message-ID: <20130522163139.GF13731@poseidon.cudanet.local>
In-Reply-To: <20130522144531.GB2777@thunk.org>

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:45:31AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I just had another idea (although I haven't had a chance to code up
> anything yet).  Perhaps instead of, or in addition to, a global
> setting (i.e., guilt.reusebranch), perhaps we should have a per-branch
> setting, such as branch.<branch>.guiltReuseBranch?
> 
> I was actually thinking that it might be interesting to have a
> branch.<branch>.rewindable, which would change the guilt defaults, and
> could also key changes in key git behavior which makes it less likely
> that a user shoots him or herself in the foot --- i.e., give warnings
> if he or she has modified the branch in such a way that
> remotes.origin.<branch> is no longer contained within the branch head.

Interesting!  I wonder what git people have to say about this.

Jeff.

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