From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:36:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Improved git-gui blame viewer
Message-ID: <81b0412b0706050336nc610ea7t98797504ef25cfc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070605043824.GB9513@spearce.org>

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).