From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:41:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user.default: New config to prevent using the default values for user.*
Message-ID: <8aa486160803051241y33b69938p6eb68784641672a1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803051516300.19665@iabervon.org>

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> 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