Re: [PATCH 0/2] apply.c: a fix and an enhancement

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jul 22, 2005, 22:55 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfyu6jvrm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507221447420.6074@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> I'd _really_ prefer to not have any preferences or other metadata files
> under version control within that same project.

Don't you think that would be a per-project decision? Is it acceptable if I make sure that .gitinfo/* is _optional_ and things do not break for projects that do not use it?

I hope you are not vetoing the ongoing discussion in another thread from including the per-project configuration.

Some people want to run their project differently, and one thing I see often done is to have pre-commit hooks that always run test suites [*1*]. I do not think it is an unreasonable thing for Porcelains to support, and what I am trying to get at is if two Porcelains decide to support it, they do it in a compatible way.

> And personal preferences are just that - personal. I do _not_ want to have 
> the kernel project history have things like "editor preferences" etc in 
> the revision history - you might want to revision them, but that would be 
> totally independent of the history of the project itself.

I agree. The .gitinfo/fake-parents may be a good thing in that sense to have project-wide, and as long as the kernel person (that is you) do not add .gitinfo/commit-template you would be happy, wouldn't you?

[Footnote]

*1* Personally sometimes I feel myself that is silly, but that is _other_ people's project, not my own. I think letting them follow their own workflow to slow themselves is better than outright forbidding it and telling them not to do it.