Re: Contributing to git: cleaner git -rm & add configuration options

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 21, 2013, 16:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7v38tgqojl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0kV_wTbbb15SwVgxW5CVufqJgAjBifT_MwnJXR1-J+3JQ@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

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> [+CC: Matthieu Moy]
>
> Mathieu Liénard--Mayor wrote:
>> -Cleaner error message when "git rm" fails with multiple files
>
> Should be fairly straightforward to implement.  Just collect the
> errors and print them out at once.
>
>> -Add configuration options for some commonly used command-line options
>
> I'd really like status.short, status.branch, am.scissors and am.3way.
> Should be fairly straightforward to implement, although others might
> have different opinions on the names of the configuration variables.
>
> Also, I've taken the liberty to remove three ideas from the list:
> jk/fetch-always-update-tracking, vv/help-unknown-ref, and
> rr/rebase-autostash are already in `pu` and will hit `master` soon.

Matheiu, please ignore the "will hit 'master' soon" part. These particular implementations might be ejected from 'pu' without prejudice and discussed further.

But the idea is the same. Somebody have already been working on them.