From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:22:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config
Message-ID: <7vfyph1ebq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511280248020.12343@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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;

 - we will not deprecate existing ones outside of config for some time;

 - we will not duplicate/move existing ones into config at least
   for now to keep our work less complicated;

 - 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.