Re: [PATCH] git init: activate rerere by default

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 5, 2007, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707052327350.9789@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070705214032.GB8751@steel.home>

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin, Thu, Jul 05, 2007 21:22:43 +0200:
> > Yes, templates are nice. But I don't think that templates are the way to 
> > go for introducing nice features as rr-cache.
> 
> Looks like you're trying to enforce the feature, not introduce.

Yes. Actually, since long I wondered if this feature should not be controlled by a core.rerere variable.

> It changes the user-visible behaviour, and this can be unexpected.

Yes, but I think for the better.

> It is not like you see people asking question: "How do I avoid repeating 
> the same boring conflict?" every day on vger or irc.

That is because people have been trained to cope with CVS. They do not even know rerere exists.

> That said, the templates are installed with every make install (and I 
> suppose with every .deb and .rpm), and template is copied in every new 
> repo, so people will get the rr-cache sooner or later. What's wrong with 
> "a bit later" than "much sooner"?

In the part of my reply that you conveniently scissored, I explained that it is often not "a bit later", but "never".

Ciao, Dscho