Re: [PATCH] advice: suggest using subcommand "git config set"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 6, 2024, 02:23 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqplm51rdd.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Z1FkrsQ5tkz1pFUz@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

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> Yeah. Overall I think it is fine to do an iterative transition to the
> new interface. `git config set` is not going to be the only instance
> that needs changes, but I very much assume that we will have suggestions
> and warnings all over the place that may recommend other modes of the
> command like the equivalent of `git config get`. But these don't have to
> all happen in the same commit, or even the same patch series, from my
> point of view.
>
> Thanks for working on this!

Exactly. We may have to keep both old and new (more explicit) ways to spell the subcommand, and consistently using the new way in our documentation pages and instruction given in advice messages is a good thing, but it is more or less a clean-up effort we can do at leisure ;-) As long as we make sure we finish before we mark the old way deprecated, it is perfectly fine.

Thanks.