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Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 21, 2005, 16:34 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511211653420.2569@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> What do people say? Is it useless to move that information into the 
> config, where it can be queried/replaced/set/removed by the config "API",

You're thinking the wrong way around. "Is it useless so we should refrain?" is not the same as "is it useful enough to do?".

> or should we continue with two incompatible ad-hoc formats? (If that 
> sounds biased, it was not meant to be.)
>

I don't use Cogito myself so I'm not aware of what incompatibilities there are. However, it's a user-friendliness layer, so it can choose to do things differently if it wants to, but changing how the plumbing works to match the porcelain seems wrong to me.

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Message 5 of 21 in “[RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config”
  1. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2005
  2. Josef WeidendorferNov 21, 2005
  3. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2005
  4. Josef WeidendorferNov 21, 2005
  5. Andreas EricssonNov 21, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisNov 27, 2005
  8. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2005
  10. Andreas EricssonNov 28, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2005
  12. Josef WeidendorferNov 28, 2005
  13. Andreas EricssonNov 28, 2005
  14. Generic configuration plumbing (Was: Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform...)Josef Weidendorfer, Nov 28, 2005
  15. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2005
  16. Petr BaudisNov 28, 2005
  17. Josef WeidendorferNov 28, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoNov 29, 2005
  19. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2005
  20. Petr BaudisNov 28, 2005
  21. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2005

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