From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 06:45:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC/GSoC 0/2] add a add.patch config variable Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi Dominik, On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Dominik Fischer wrote: > Matthieu Moy 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