From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3DC820A17 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751355AbdAWT77 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:59:59 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:53640 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750950AbdAWT76 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:59:58 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DC762DAD; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:59:57 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=saoiVpRZeePrrrv9wiZIYSz7B6k=; b=jD/tk8 9Zj3OOhyk/b+bNELP1EI9chhYjM+tDlfIQD96jE3LRBSSxyEvtzutEVIV2dA9SPK U4bGyY9+tIH/ebx78+NdkLZgjzatEFNcDqHj5jCyt6QIrPCWMeeZRdovKg6tbPbb EKA2eRY0hdQo/TKxKoTMbj5K3iNpfvjec3QLQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=tDGPIkrarehHkaw9jHI4g8B3C4HazCSO aigeNv5VZ/whX3SRIzke///odtBVHlHxUon2Selvob4/4yuN+yK2Bqc4hnfkQT/3 O1eJ4yw7j9KnP02bYo5cQQyJ/cDG8zU6KEeoguav4ub2s20euKMC3bB+6JPyfXwC ysAlIyBZsJE= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2EF62DAC; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:59:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.0.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7B52262DAB; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:59:56 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Christian Couder Cc: Duy Nguyen , git , =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , Christian Couder Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/21] Documentation/git-update-index: talk about core.splitIndex config var References: <20161226102222.17150-1-chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <20161226102222.17150-9-chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:59:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Christian Couder's message of "Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:55:38 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 83590828-E1A6-11E6-8465-FE3F13518317-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Christian Couder writes: >>> Perhaps we should declare that config will be the one and only way >>> in the future and start deprecating the command line option way. >>> That will remove the need for two to interact with each other. > > That would be my preferred solution as I think it is the simplest in > the end for users. > Also, as Duy wrote above, one can always use something like "git -c > core.splitIndex= ...", which by the way can work for any command, not > just "update-index". > > Anyway we would have to introduce core.splitIndex first, and it > wouldn't make sense to have a different behavior between > --[no-]split-index and --[no-]untracked-cache in the meantime before > they are deprecated and eventually removed. > > So let's just go with the implementation in this series, which is > similar to --[no-]untracked-cache, and let's plan to deprecate > --[no-]split-index and --[no-]untracked-cache in a later patch series. Sounds like we have a plan. Thanks.