Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 9, 2006, 01:57 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605081854190.3718@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wv4c7wk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Yes, but that statefulness is inviting user errors, and you need
> to update repo-config and config parser anyway, so I still do
> not see what the advantage is.

Btw, I keep coming back to the same

	["jc/show-branch-dense"]
		remote = git://...

branch specifier syntax. It just seems very intuitive and is easy to parse.

The only real downside ends up being the non-forwards-compatibility thing. But trying to be forwards-compatible for old git versions with this thing would seem to be a major pain for rather slim gain.

			Linus