From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:07:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git should not use a default user.email config value
Message-ID: <vpqr4dwl61b.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daWqzTkMFkecrAjMCmxwZZrgUtB-FVKrjsmfvpgwPgF8AA@mail.gmail.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>> > This whole discussion is basically implementing conditional config.
>> > [...] The problem is that it would be tricky to do in a
>> > backwards-compatible way.
>>
>> That could be done with "conditional comments" like
>>
>> # if <some-condition> then
>> [core]
>>         pager = less
>> # endif
>>
>> That's rather ugly, and the implementation would be even more ugly, but
>> backward-compatible.
>
>
> I highly doubt that you would want to be "backward compatible" in this
> case, though.
> The section of the configuration you are enclosing the new if/endif
> syntax may be
> understood only by newer Git (e.g. imagine core.pager is still
> bool-only today), and
> older Git that do not understand if/endif syntax will happily read
> that section and
> choke on it, no?

Indeed. That would be more

# if <some-condition> then
# [core]
#       pager = less
# endif

which is even more ugly ;-).

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Matthieu Moy
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