Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] stash: remove the stash.useBuiltin setting
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Mar 4, 2020, 16:25 UTC
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Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:
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> On 03/03, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > + Unused configuration Variable. Used in Git versions 2.22 to >> >> s/Variable/variable/; > > Whoops. Do you want me to re-send an updated version, or could you > fix this up locally?
After reading your response to the end, it appears that there is no other changes needed, so let me do the honors ;-)
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>> I am a bit torn between "just document it here as a stale variable >> that can safely be removed from your configuration, and do not warn" >> and what you did here. Even if we warn for a few releases, this >> entry cannot be removed from the documentation for a lot longer >> time, if ever, anyway. It's not like having an extra entry that is >> unused in the configuration file would hurt users, anyway, and it is >> not obvious that the warning helps more than it disrupts them by >> bugging users to remove it from their configuration file. > > Hmm I'm thinking of the warning mostly as preventing the "I have > legacy stash enabled, why do I see a new bug all of a sudden?" > question, as opposed to it helping removing this from the docs.
OK. Thanks.