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Re: Improved git-gui blame viewer

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 5, 2007, 10:36 UTC
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On 6/5/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Don't we use git-config to edit the config file in git-branch?
Not routinely. Seldom, even
> In git-remote?  git-gui has *always* used git-config to store
> its data.  You are sort of asking me to replace a working config
> system with a new one that hasn't been tested...
Just divert the data someplace else.
> Now moving the git-gui config to say ~/.gitgui-config and
> .git/gitgui-config may have a good argument, as then git-gui
> is editing its own files.
Good argument on its own
>  Unless the user changes user.name
> or user.email through git-gui, in which case we have to edit
> .git/config or ~/.gitconfig anyway...
Yes, then of course (in this case the user is even aware).
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  1. Shawn O. PearceJun 2, 2007
  2. Matthijs MelchiorJun 2, 2007
  3. Shawn O. PearceJun 4, 2007
  4. Martin WaitzJun 4, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceJun 4, 2007
  6. Martin WaitzJun 4, 2007
  7. Matthijs MelchiorJun 4, 2007
  8. Shawn O. PearceJun 5, 2007
  9. Matthijs MelchiorJun 5, 2007
  10. Alex RiesenJun 4, 2007
  11. Shawn O. PearceJun 5, 2007
  12. Alex RiesenJun 5, 2007

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