Re: [PATCH] Teach remote machinery about remotes.default config variable

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 12, 2008, 16:50 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801121748290.8333@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <478855B5.9070600@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Mark Levedahl wrote:

> The argument against my approach of explicitly naming the server rests 
> upon the premise that hiding a half-dozen servers, all different and 
> with those differences being important, under the single universal name 
> "origin", makes things easier.

No, that was not _at all_ my argument.

I said that hiding it under a different name _that you have to look up, too_ does _not_ make things easier.

I might even add that it makes misconfigurations even worse.

Ciao, Dscho

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