# Slight in error in git-rerere help page 3 messages from 2009-07-28 to 2009-07-28. Participants: François Pinard, Michael J Gruber. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20252 ## François Pinard, 2009-07-28 02:20 Subject: Slight in error in git-rerere help page Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ygeocr5blap.fsf%40phenix.progiciels-bpi.ca ``` Hi, people. This is for git version 1.6.4.rc3.12.gdf73a The output of "git help rerere" contains: You need to set the configuration variable rerere.enabled to enable this command. It seems that that "enable" is not a proper value. If I used it over a small repository, I get: 22:17:33 0 pinard@phenix:etc $ git config rerere.enabled enable 22:17:44 0 pinard@phenix:etc $ git gc Counting objects: 1072, done. Compressing objects: 100% (559/559), done. Writing objects: 100% (1072/1072), done. Total 1072 (delta 460), reused 1072 (delta 460) fatal: bad config value for 'rerere.enabled' in .git/config error: failed to run rerere Removing the rerere section repairs this last problem. P.S. - I'm also a bit curious about why rerere is needed for a garbage collection. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ``` ## François Pinard, 2009-07-28 02:28 Subject: Re: Slight in error in git-rerere help page Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ygetz0x35ja.fsf%40phenix.progiciels-bpi.ca In-Reply-To: ``` pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes: > Hi, people. This is for git version 1.6.4.rc3.12.gdf73a > > The output of "git help rerere" contains: > > You need to set the configuration variable rerere.enabled to enable > this command. > > It seems that that "enable" is not a proper value. If I used it over a > small repository, I get: > > 22:17:33 0 pinard@phenix:etc $ git config rerere.enabled enable > 22:17:44 0 pinard@phenix:etc $ git gc > Counting objects: 1072, done. > Compressing objects: 100% (559/559), done. > Writing objects: 100% (1072/1072), done. > Total 1072 (delta 460), reused 1072 (delta 460) > fatal: bad config value for 'rerere.enabled' in .git/config > error: failed to run rerere > > Removing the rerere section repairs this last problem. > > P.S. - I'm also a bit curious about why rerere is needed for a garbage > collection. I now see my mistake, which is one of misreading English. Sorry for my noise. Thanks! -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ``` ## Michael J Gruber, 2009-07-28 14:42 Subject: [PATCH] git-rerere.txt: Clarify ambiguity of the config variable Message-ID: <1248792135-3361-1-git-send-email-git@drmicha.warpmail.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1248792135-3361-1-git-send-email-git%40drmicha.warpmail.net In-Reply-To: ``` Use the less ambiguous "set variable foo in order to enable bar" rather than "set variable foo to enable bar" which may trick users into assuming that "enable" is a good value for "foo". Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber --- I know there is no way to misunderstand this if one looks at the whole sentence, but still I deem it worthwhile to make it easier on the reader. Patch is against maint (git-rerere.txt does not have any more recent changes). Documentation/git-rerere.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt index a53c3cd..7dd515b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ on the initial manual merge, and applying previously recorded hand resolutions to their corresponding automerge results. [NOTE] -You need to set the configuration variable rerere.enabled to +You need to set the configuration variable rerere.enabled in order to enable this command. -- 1.6.4.rc3.201.gd9d59 ```