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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] config: learn the "onbranch:" includeIf condition
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 14:58:30 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1905311453420.44@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b60e58ba554768fd915e4f5c00a97737707ed42.1559263024.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 30 May 2019, Denton Liu wrote:

> Currently, if a user wishes to have individual settings per branch, they
> are required to manually keep track of the settings in their head and
> manually set the options on the command-line or change the config at
> each branch.
>
> Teach config the "onbranch:" includeIf condition so that it can
> conditionally include configuration files if the branch is checked out
> in the current worktree.

What a coincidence. I actually wished for something like this, to have
branch-specific aliases.

However, I would need this to handle patterns (via `wildmatch()`?) rather
than branch names.

> I decided to go ahead and implement the includeIf onbranch semantics for
> fun. For completeness, I'm sending it to the list but I'm not really
> sure if this should get merged, since I don't really have a use-case for
> this, especially if we go the branch-specific format-patch config route.
>
> Another thing to note is that this change doesn't completely cover all
> the use-cases that the branch-specific format-patch does. In particular,
> if I run
>
> 	$ git checkout foo
> 	$ git format-patch master..bar
>
> with the `format.bar.*`, we'd get bar-specific configs, whereas with
> `includeIf "onbranch:bar"`, we'd fail to include bar-specific configs
> and, more dangerously, we'd be including foo's configs.

I actually think that this is fine. "on branch" means that you are on the
specified branch, not that you merely mention the branch name on the
command-line (in which case there would be the ambiguity "did the user
mean `master` or `bar`?").

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-31 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-05 16:24 [PATCH 0/7] teach branch-specific options for format-patch Denton Liu
2019-05-05 16:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] t4014: clean up style Denton Liu
2019-05-05 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/7] Doc: add more detail for git-format-patch Denton Liu
2019-05-05 16:24 ` [PATCH 3/7] branch.c: extract read_branch_config function Denton Liu
2019-05-05 16:24 ` [PATCH 4/7] format-patch: make cover letter subject configurable Denton Liu
2019-05-05 16:24 ` [PATCH 5/7] format-patch: move extra_headers logic later Denton Liu
2019-05-05 16:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] string-list: create string_list_append_all Denton Liu
2019-05-05 16:24 ` [PATCH 7/7] format-patch: read branch-specific To: and Cc: headers Denton Liu
2019-05-07  8:56 ` [PATCH 0/7] teach branch-specific options for format-patch Junio C Hamano
2019-05-07 14:19   ` Denton Liu
2019-05-07 15:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-07 15:21       ` Denton Liu
2019-05-07 15:46         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-08  1:45           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-31  2:00             ` [RFC PATCH] config: learn the "onbranch:" includeIf condition Denton Liu
2019-05-31 12:58               ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2019-05-31 13:16                 ` Denton Liu
2019-05-31 17:23                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-31 18:44                     ` Denton Liu
2019-05-31 19:33               ` [PATCH v2] " Denton Liu
2019-05-31 20:14                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-05  8:02                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-05 10:08                 ` Duy Nguyen
2019-06-05 21:21                 ` [PATCH v3] " Denton Liu
2019-06-06 12:52                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-17  0:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] teach branch-specific options for format-patch Denton Liu
2019-05-17  0:27   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] t4014: clean up style Denton Liu
2019-05-17  0:27   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] Doc: add more detail for git-format-patch Denton Liu
2019-05-17  0:27   ` [PATCH v2 3/6] format-patch: make cover letter subject configurable Denton Liu
2019-05-17  0:27   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] format-patch: move extra_headers logic later Denton Liu
2019-05-17  0:27   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] string-list: create string_list_append_all Denton Liu
2019-05-17  0:27   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] format-patch: read branch-specific To: and Cc: headers Denton Liu
2019-05-17  4:12   ` [PATCH v2 0/6] teach branch-specific options for format-patch Junio C Hamano
2019-05-17  7:25     ` Denton Liu
2019-05-17 16:54       ` Denton Liu
2019-05-22  2:44   ` [PATCH v3 0/8] " Denton Liu
2019-05-22  2:44     ` [PATCH v3 1/8] t4014: clean up style Denton Liu
2019-05-22  2:44     ` [PATCH v3 2/8] Doc: add more detail for git-format-patch Denton Liu
2019-05-22  2:44     ` [PATCH v3 3/8] format-patch: infer cover letter from branch description Denton Liu
2019-05-22  2:44     ` [PATCH v3 4/8] format-patch: move extra_headers logic later Denton Liu
2019-05-22  2:44     ` [PATCH v3 5/8] string-list: create string_list_append_all Denton Liu
2019-05-22  2:44     ` [PATCH v3 6/8] format-patch: read branch-specific To: and Cc: headers Denton Liu
2019-05-22  2:44     ` [PATCH v3 7/8] format-patch: move output_directory logic later Denton Liu
2019-05-22  2:44     ` [PATCH v3 8/8] format-patch: read branch-specific output directory Denton Liu
2019-05-31  0:30     ` [PATCH v3 0/8] teach branch-specific options for format-patch Denton Liu
2019-06-14 21:56     ` [RESEND PATCH " Denton Liu
2019-06-14 21:56       ` [RESEND PATCH v3 1/8] t4014: clean up style Denton Liu
2019-06-14 21:56       ` [RESEND PATCH v3 2/8] Doc: add more detail for git-format-patch Denton Liu
2019-06-14 21:56       ` [RESEND PATCH v3 3/8] format-patch: infer cover letter from branch description Denton Liu
2019-06-14 21:56       ` [RESEND PATCH v3 4/8] format-patch: move extra_headers logic later Denton Liu
2019-06-14 21:56       ` [RESEND PATCH v3 5/8] string-list: create string_list_append_all Denton Liu
2019-06-14 21:56       ` [RESEND PATCH v3 6/8] format-patch: read branch-specific To: and Cc: headers Denton Liu
2019-06-14 21:56       ` [RESEND PATCH v3 7/8] format-patch: move output_directory logic later Denton Liu
2019-06-14 21:56       ` [RESEND PATCH v3 8/8] format-patch: read branch-specific output directory Denton Liu
2019-10-15  9:06     ` [PATCH v6 0/3] format-patch: learn --infer-cover-subject option (also t4014 cleanup) Denton Liu
2019-10-15  9:06       ` [PATCH v6 1/3] format-patch: replace erroneous and condition Denton Liu
2019-10-15  9:06       ` [PATCH v6 2/3] format-patch: use enum variables Denton Liu
2019-10-15  9:06       ` [PATCH v6 3/3] format-patch: teach --cover-from-description option Denton Liu
2019-10-16  1:28       ` [PATCH v6 0/3] format-patch: learn --infer-cover-subject option (also t4014 cleanup) Junio C Hamano

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