From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Cc: "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, peff@peff.net,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] [RFC] Create 'core.featureAdoptionRate' setting to update config defaults
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 13:55:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190709185552.GA84865@TaylorsMBP6986.attlocal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50955e76-8b61-8ffd-b8ee-3621ecbd912b@gmail.com>
Hi Derrick,
I'm a little bit late to the part, but I think that this is a really
interesting feature with a lot of really interesting discussion so far.
I hope you don't mind me throwing in my $.02 as well :-).
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 03:22:49PM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> On 7/1/2019 10:29 AM, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
> > Here is a second run at this RFC, which aims to create a "meta" config
> > setting that automatically turns on other settings according to a user's
> > willingness to trade new Git behavior or new feature risk for performance
> > benefits. The new name for the setting is "core.featureAdoptionRate" and is
> > an integer scale from 0 to 10. There will be multiple "categories" of
> > settings, and the intention is to allow more granular levels as necessary.
>
> (Adding people who contributed feedback to CC line.)
>
> It seems that this "Feature Adoption Rate" idea was too simplistic, and
> had several issues. Time to take a different stab at this direction, but
> with these clear goals in mind:
>
> 1. We want intermediate users to be able to take advantage of new config
> options without watching every release for new config options.
>
> 2. The config name should match the general effect of the implied
> settings.
>
> 3. There are orthogonal settings that may not apply beneficially to
> all repos.
I think that this is a clear representation of the initial reaction I
had to the 'core.featureAdoptionRate' idea. I had drafted a response to
advance these concerns before realizing that this subsequent RFC
existed, which does a nice job highlighting the concerns that I had.
> With this in mind, I propose instead a set of "feature.*" config settings
> that form groups of "community recommended" settings (with some caveats).
> In the space below, I'll list a set of possible feature names and the
> implied config options.
I think that 'feature.*' configuration settings are a good idea. They
address each of the above (3) concerns, since they are:
1. Can be easily adopted by even novice-level users. Perhaps
novice-users will not be setting 'feature.manyFiles = 1', but they
can easily opt-in to organization-level features that have been
defined to handle organization-specific concerns.
2. This one is straightforward: I think that setting
'feature.manyFiles = 1' is clearer than 'feature.adoptionRate = 3'.
3. Right. Windows developers may have a different set of what features
are interesting to adopt than, say, every-day users, and likewise
for kernel developers, too.
> First, the main two categories we've discussed so far: many commits and
> many files. These two feature sets are for when your repo is large in
> one of these dimensions. Perhaps there are other settings to include
> in these?
>
> feature.manyFiles:
> index.version = 4
> index.threads = true
> core.untrackedCache = true
>
> feature.manyCommits:
> core.commitGraph = true
> gc.writeCommitGraph = true
> (future: fetch.writeSplitCommitGraph = true)
I think that for this *feature* (pun mostly unintended) to really shine,
we ought to adopt Junio's suggestion in [1] that we allow users to:
* use pre-baked features that are defined within and shipped with
Git itself.
* define their own features and second-order features that can
reference both pre-baked and user-defined feature groups.
I think that this will let, say, folks at Microsoft to define a set of
features that are interesting to Windows developers, that are separate
from the features that core Git thinks will be interesting to every-day
users.
>
> <snip>
>
> Thanks,
> -Stolee
Thanks,
Taylor
[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqftonsr6a.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-09 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-03 20:18 [PATCH 00/11] [RFC] Create 'core.size=large' setting to update config defaults Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 01/11] repo-settings: create repo.size=large setting Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:42 ` Jeff Hostetler
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 03/11] repo-settings: pack.useSparse=true Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 02/11] repo-settings: use index.version=4 by default Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 04/11] status: add status.aheadbehind setting Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 05/11] status: add warning when a/b calculation takes too long for long/normal format Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 07/11] repo-settings: status.aheadBehind=false Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 06/11] status: ignore status.aheadbehind in porcelain formats Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 08/11] fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argument Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 09/11] fetch: warn about forced updates after branch list Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 10/11] pull: add --[no-]show-forced-updates passthrough to fetch Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:18 ` [PATCH 11/11] repo-settings: fetch.showForcedUpdates=false Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-03 20:55 ` [PATCH 00/11] [RFC] Create 'core.size=large' setting to update config defaults Derrick Stolee
2019-06-04 14:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-04 14:56 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-06-05 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-06 12:23 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-06-06 16:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-19 15:11 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] [RFC] Create 'core.featureAdoptionRate' " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-19 15:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] repo-settings: create core.featureAdoptionRate setting Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-28 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-28 21:08 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-06-28 21:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-29 1:43 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-06-30 18:35 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-07-01 12:45 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-07-02 10:47 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-02 11:09 ` Duy Nguyen
2019-07-02 14:54 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-07-02 16:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-19 15:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] repo-settings: use index.version=4 by default Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-06-19 15:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] repo-settings: pack.useSparse=true Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-07-01 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] [RFC] Create 'core.featureAdoptionRate' setting to update config defaults Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-07-01 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] repo-settings: create core.featureAdoptionRate setting Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-07-01 23:27 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-07-02 9:20 ` Duy Nguyen
2019-07-02 10:53 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-04 22:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2019-07-01 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] repo-settings: use index.version=4 by default Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-07-01 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] repo-settings: pack.useSparse=true Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-07-08 19:22 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] [RFC] Create 'core.featureAdoptionRate' setting to update config defaults Derrick Stolee
2019-07-09 18:55 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2019-07-09 19:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-09 19:45 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-07-09 22:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-22 12:10 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-07-11 21:54 ` Jakub Narebski
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