From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:25:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC RFC PATCH v4 0/4] repo: add new command for retrieving repository info
Message-ID: <aHjPf2so4BzQkYRO@ugly>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqecuhiekv.fsf@gitster.g>

On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 09:49:52AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> writes:
>> the obvious followup idea would then be "meta", but that suggests 
>> that
>> it isn't only a read-only command, which i think it is supposed to
>> remain?
>
>"git repository query"
>"git repository stat"
>...?
>
yes, but one could also add "git repository set" or some such. as such 
symmetry is reasonable to expect, people might be confused by its 
absence. an obviously read-only command like "query" would preclude 
this.