Re: [RFC/PATCH] enable rerere by default

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 6, 2007, 23:19 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702070016360.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vhctyhon2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> How do I disable rerere by default?
> >
> > How'd you like it? Should this rather become a config variable, or do you 
> > want to make a file called "rr-cache" in the templates, which just 
> > contains a word "disabled"? (git-rerere checks if a _directory_ 
> > $GIT_DIR/rr-cache exists.)
> 
> Is it so bad to do "rm -rf .git/rr-cache"?

I guess the problem is that you cannot do that by a hook, or by installing appropriate templates.

Since the test for rr-cache always is a test for a directory, it might make sense to _not_ fail in init-db when creating the directory. In that case, rerere can be disabled by installing templates which make rr-cache a _file_.

Ciao, Dscho