Add configuration options for some commonly used command-line options (Was: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application)

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 19, 2017, 09:57 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Du+WWWkx3wqRJYA=cyTdro=OOD7GWaFi29=h1_9yC+LQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> +### Add configuration options for some commonly used command-line options
> +
> +This includes:
> +
> +* git am -3
> +
> +* git am -c
> +
> +Some people always run the command with these options, and would
> +prefer to be able to activate them by default in ~/.gitconfig.

I was reading the .md file to add a new microproject and found this. Instead of adding new config case by case, should we do something more generic?

We could have a new group defaultOptions.<command> (or <command>.options) which contains <option-name> = <value> where option names are the long name in parse-options? Then we don't have to manually add more config options any more (mostly, I'm aware of stuff like diff options that do not use parse-options).

If we want to stop the users from shooting themselves in the foot, we could extend parse-options to allow/disallow certain options being used this way. Hmm?

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Duy