From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:33:00 GMT
Subject: Re: diff settings
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901291731220.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4981D8AD.6000000@tedpavlic.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Ted Pavlic wrote:

> > This task is pretty easy in Mercurial because Mercurial porcelains are
> > implemented as modules that are all executed through the central "hg"
> > command. This isn't the case with git.
> 
> (on the other hand, having a "[defaults]" section that only applies when
> commands are called via "git" might be nice. That way you can use the
> "git-CMD" when you want to use CMD without the "[defaults]"... perhaps?)

Nope, the dash form is deprecated, and once y'all out there finally do not 
write it any more, we can start thinking about _not_ hardlinking the 
builtins to their dashed form anymore.

Believe it or not, we already have a distinction between what is called 
from scripts vs from humans: plumbing vs porcelain.  So you can set the 
defaults for porcelain as much as you want, but please leave plumbing 
alone.

Ciao,
Dscho