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From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Supporting .git/hooks/$NAME.d/* && /etc/git/hooks/$NAME.d/*
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:40:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <571F6FB5.2000305@xiplink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX6AYBYeb5S4nEBhYbx1r=icJ81JGYBx5=H4wacPhHjFbQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2016-04-26 06:58 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> Makes sense to have an experimental.* config tree for git for stuff like this.

I disagree.

* If the point is to express some kind of warning to users, I think the
community has been much better served by leaving experimental settings
undocumented (or documented only in unmerged topic branches).  It feels like
an experimental.* tree is a doorway to putting experimental features in
official releases, which seems odd considering that (IMHO) git has so far
done very well with the carefully-planned-out integration of all sorts of
features.

* Part of the experiment is coming up with appropriate configuration knobs,
including where those knobs should live.  Often such considerations lead to a
better implementation for the feature.  Dumping things into an experimental.*
tree would merely postpone that part of the feature's design.

* Such a tree creates a flag day when the experimental feature eventually
becomes a "real" feature. That'll annoy any early adopters. Sure, they
*should* be prepared to deal with config tree bike-shedding, but still that
extra churn seems unnecessary.

		M.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-26 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-22 23:51 RFC: Supporting .git/hooks/$NAME.d/* && /etc/git/hooks/$NAME.d/* Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-04-25 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-26 10:58   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-04-26 13:40     ` Marc Branchaud [this message]
2016-04-26 16:09       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-04-26 17:52         ` Christian Couder
2016-04-26 21:09         ` Marc Branchaud
2016-04-26 21:52     ` Junio C Hamano

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