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Re: [RFC] control, what refs are honored by core.logAllRefUpdates

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Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Date
Jul 13, 2011, 08:52 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 20:25, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
 [1] If we were starting from scratch, you could make that distinction
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> with a new operator, like:
>
>  [core]
>    autoLogRef = heads
>    autoLogRef += remotes
>    autoLogRef += notes
>    autoLogRef = heads
>
> which would be equivalent to what you wrote above. But because it
> switches the semantics of "=" to "replace" instead of "append" for
> multi-value keys, it would break all current config that uses multiple
> "fetch" lines (for example).
Adding ! as a negator would also break config files read by old git versions.
Bert
>
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  1. Bert WesargJul 12, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2011
  3. Bert WesargJul 12, 2011
  4. Jeff KingJul 12, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederJul 12, 2011
  6. Bert WesargJul 13, 2011
  7. Jeff KingJul 13, 2011

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