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Re: [PATCH/RFC/GSoC 0/2] add a add.patch config variable

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 22, 2016, 06:45 UTC
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Hi Dominik,
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Dominik Fischer wrote:
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> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> > any transition plan would be far more painful than the possible benefits
> I agree, it cannot be expected that every external script sets
> GIT_RECURSION_DEPTH before issuing any command just because of this little
> option.
> 
> As an exercise for GSoC, I implemented it nonetheless to get more familiar
> with the code base and testing system and receive some feedback. Perhaps the
> counter can even be useful for some actually significant use case in the
> future.

Maybe. We come up with tons of patches all the time, and most do not make it into the code base, though.

I still think it was a valuable thing to do: you are now much more familiar with Git's code base. And you now know why the proposed solution won't work. And I guess the alias is what you'll end up using.

Ciao, Johannes

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  2. 1/2 count recursion depthXZS, Apr 21, 2016
  3. 2/2 add a add.patch config variableXZS, Apr 21, 2016
  4. Johannes SchindelinApr 21, 2016
  5. Dominik FischerApr 21, 2016
  6. Matthieu MoyApr 21, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 21, 2016
  8. Dominik FischerApr 21, 2016
  9. Johannes SchindelinApr 22, 2016
  10. Johannes SchindelinApr 22, 2016

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