Re: The git spring cleanup challenge

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 1, 2021, 10:07 UTC
Message-ID: <60b606f029f11_e40ca20849@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <ea3a64bb-7c1e-465a-9639-aedeeb635d0a@gmail.com>

Andy wrote:

> My understanding is that even if it's not an advanced question about the 
> details of development, but just a general question, it's still possible 
> to discuss it on this mailing list.

Yes it is.

> At the moment my configuration file is quite short, but you mentioned 
> that the configuration files of the masters are often very long, which 
> reminds me that there is a lot of room for optimization.

Indeed. But efen if it's short, do you need more than 2 configurations? (other than user.{name,email})? If so, maybe you could participate too, and let us know which you couldn't live without.

> Getting out of your comfort zone is not even an easy task, and 
> understanding the problem clearly does require preventing expert bias, 
> which is not easy.

Exactly. And getting rid of our precious ~/.gitconfig (even if it's just for a while) is a straightforward way to force us out.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras