Re: [PATCH v4 5/8] maintenance: add start/stop subcommands

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 10, 2020, 00:13 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtusuzffv.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201209191616.GO36751@google.com>

Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> writes:

>  	# start registers the repo
> -	git config --get --global maintenance.repo "$(pwd)" &&
> +	git config --get --global --fixed-value maintenance.repo "$(pwd)" &&

The rewrite makes it better than the original, but I wonder why the original did not do a more obvious

	git config --get maintenance.repo >actual &&
	pwd >expect &&
	test_cmp expect actual

>  	# stop does not unregister the repo
> -	git config --get --global maintenance.repo "$(pwd)" &&
> +	git config --get --global --fixed-value maintenance.repo "$(pwd)" &&

Ditto.

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