From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:10:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0806182202030.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806181726550.2907@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Nobody should ever use "git-config" normally. You should fire up your 
> > editor and just edit the damn file in place. But no, we don't have a 
> > man-page for that.
> 
> Btw, one reason people end up talking about git-config is that it's easier 
> to tell *other* people to "run this command" than it is to tell them to 
> "edit this file so it looks like <xyz>".

The other factor is that you sometimes want to tell somebody one option 
setting, and you're using a medium where there's a comprehension cost to 
newlines. So 'remote.origin.url blah' is more clear than '[remote 
"origin"]
	url = blah' in those contexts. And we don't seem to encourage 
'[remote origin] url = blah', even though it turns out to work fine (at 
least, I didn't know until I just now tried it that I could suggest it).

	-Daniel
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