RE: [PATCH] Allow git-config to append a comment

From: Ralph Seichter <github@seichter.de>
Date: Mar 7, 2024, 15:26 UTC
Message-ID: <87h6higj1a.fsf@ra.horus-it.com>
In-Reply-To: <098101da7096$cd773d40$6865b7c0$@nexbridge.com>

* rsbecker@nexbridge.com:

> While comments are permitted in .gitconfig files, I am not 100% sure
> that all stakeholders, particularly those who parse .gitconfig files
> in their own scripts outside of git - sure, it is their own
> responsibility, but this might be unexpected.

Comments are nothing new, and humans have added far crazier comments to their Git config in the past. The patch ensures that a '#' precedes the comments added using git-config, which is not guaranteed to happen when Joe Random User manually edits config files.

I think that anybody incapable of reliably dealing with comments in config files would already have fallen flat on his/her nose, regardless of how those comments were made.

> I worry that this might unintentionally introduce incompatibilities
> into repository configurations.

Do you have an example?

-Ralph