From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:52:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] control, what refs are honored by core.logAllRefUpdates
Message-ID: <CAKPyHN1GEkcyacQ_f4hhjaaZx4Fx4tmfz0qRSfTPXJDgUm8mow@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110712182517.GA17787@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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
> 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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