From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:43:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config
Message-ID: <438AC32E.5010100@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyph1ebq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>I only realized that we -- in the good tradition of UNIX -- have many 
>>different formats for different configurations: Some configurations are in 
>>.gitignore, some are in .git/branches/, some in .git/remotes/, some in 
>>.git/config, and even some in environment variables!
> 
> 
> Can you live with something like this?
> 
>  - we will add new ones to config, now we have it;
> 

I'd still like to see git-repo-config and git-user-config. Otherwise 
we'll need to continue having user-based environment variables 
(GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT and friends).

> 
>  - we would revisit deprecating things outside config file
>    sometime later after 1.0 stabilizes, and that's when we will
>    talk about moving these things into config.
> 

GIT_DIR and GIT_OBJECT_DIR must remain environment variables (or command 
line arguments) more or less indefinitely. It doesn't make sense to keep 
them any other way.

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