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Re: [PATCH] user.default: New config to prevent using the default values for user.*

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SBSanti Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 5, 2008, 20:41 UTC
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<8aa486160803051241y33b69938p6eb68784641672a1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Santi Béjar wrote:
>
>
> > Useful when you want a different email/name for each repository
>
>  I still think it would be more intuitive if you made it so that setting
>  user.* to nothing was not an error, suppressed picking values up from the
>  system, and led (if not overridden again) to the message telling you how
>  to set them. Is there some reason you decided not to have that be how the
>  user triggers this behavior?

I first tried this way, but when I was writing the documentation I found it more clean and easy if it was a separate config.

Santi
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  1. user.default: New config to prevent using the default values for user.*Santi Béjar, Mar 5, 2008
  2. Jon LoeligerMar 5, 2008
  3. Santi BéjarMar 5, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 5, 2008
  5. Daniel BarkalowMar 5, 2008
  6. Santi BéjarMar 5, 2008
  7. Alex RiesenMar 5, 2008
  8. Santi BéjarMar 6, 2008
  9. Alex RiesenMar 7, 2008
  10. Santi BéjarMar 8, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinMar 8, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2008
  13. Johannes SchindelinMar 8, 2008
  14. Jakub NarebskiMar 5, 2008
  15. Santi BéjarMar 5, 2008
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2008
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  21. Santi BéjarMar 5, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2008
  23. Santi BéjarMar 6, 2008

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