Re: [PATCH] Teach remote machinery about remotes.default config variable

From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2008, 17:29 UTC
Message-ID: <4788F907.1050306@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801121748290.8333@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> No, that was not _at all_ my argument.
>
> I said that hiding it under a different name _that you have to look up, 
> too_ does _not_ make things easier.
>
>

Granted, *IF* we had to look it up, but we don't. In fact, we use the 
convention
    servername.foo.bar
has nickname
    servername

So, we need to know the server name we are using, and that server name is the nickname. So, no confusion and no extra lookup step. (Our server names are unique without the domain suffixes, so this works well for us).

Mark

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