Re: [PATCH v2] config: retry acquiring config.lock, configurable via core.configLockTimeout

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 28, 2026, 12:23 UTC
Message-ID: <875x47u3il.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <f449d0db-0434-f870-c69f-793f2b096816@gmx.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Footnote *1*: In general, I am quite wary of unit-less numbers in
> configurations.

Hear, hear.

I do not like unit-less names for variables that store numbers, not just configuration but in-code variables. In the longer run we want to clean these up. In-code variables are much easier to clean-up than end-user facing configuration variable names, of course.