From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] config: allow including config from repository blobs
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:42:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120127054216.GA23633@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd3a51zlb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:30:56PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> While I do not think origin/meta:config is a sensible default, I actually
> do think that:
>
> [include]
> ref = meta:gitconfig
> [branch "meta"]
> remote = origin
> merge = refs/heads/meta
>
> makes some sense. The earlier example with the in-tree dev_tools/config in
> the same line of history as the usual source material to keep track of
> private changes ("this single user hating it") was not realistic as it
> forbids the user from sharing the rest of the source once she decides to
> fork the config preference.
I don't think having it in-tree makes a difference. I can fork the
regular tree into my config branch, and it contains only my config
changes. If I want to share config changes with people, then I do so by
sharing that branch. But it need not have any impact on the "real"
branch I create from the regular tree. The fact that the rest of the
source files are in the config branch are irrelevant.
That being said, I think it would be nicer for projects to carry meta
information like this out-of-tree in a special ref. It's just simpler to
work with, and it means the project's source isn't polluted with extra
junk.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-27 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 7:35 [RFC/PATCH 0/4] config include directives Jeff King
2012-01-26 7:37 ` [PATCH 1/4] config: add include directive Jeff King
2012-01-26 9:16 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-01-26 16:54 ` Jeff King
2012-01-26 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-26 22:25 ` Jeff King
2012-01-26 22:43 ` Jeff King
2012-01-26 20:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-26 22:51 ` Jeff King
2012-01-27 5:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-27 5:55 ` Jeff King
2012-01-27 17:03 ` Jens Lehmann
2012-01-27 0:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-01-27 0:32 ` Jeff King
2012-01-27 9:33 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-01-27 5:07 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-01-27 5:54 ` Jeff King
2012-01-26 7:38 ` [PATCH 2/4] config: factor out config file stack management Jeff King
2012-01-26 7:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] config: support parsing config data from buffers Jeff King
2012-01-26 7:42 ` [PATCH 4/4] config: allow including config from repository blobs Jeff King
2012-01-26 9:25 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-01-26 17:22 ` Jeff King
2012-01-27 3:47 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-01-27 5:57 ` Jeff King
2012-01-26 21:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-26 23:00 ` Jeff King
2012-01-27 0:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-27 0:49 ` Jeff King
2012-01-27 5:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-27 5:42 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-01-27 7:27 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-01-27 23:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-27 4:01 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-01-27 5:59 ` Jeff King
2012-01-27 9:51 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/4] config include directives Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-01-27 17:34 ` Jeff King
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