Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 8, 2006, 23:40 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0605090137160.5755@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605081905240.6713@iabervon.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> You could tell people always to use:
> 
>  [branch."name"]

I find this utterly ugly.

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> I don't think that people are likely to use older versions of git on the 
> same repository they've used newer versions on. (Clones of it, sure, but 
> that doesn't matter here.) But we should, in any case, make the code 
> ignore sections or lines with syntax errors, under the assumption that 
> they're a later extension and possibly legal but not anything the code 
> could be interested in getting from a parser that doesn't support them.

I have to bisect git sometimes, just because I have some local changes. Older gits do barf with a fatal error when encountering a bad config.

Further, it is probably not a good idea to relax error-checking. It is too easy to overlook.

Ciao, Dscho