From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
David Glasser <glasser@davidglasser.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: push.default documented in "man git-push"?
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:26:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7gr75s40.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8APN-CdBZgLzuNWAa5ArR2gkcStY4GZ=79fU7sGT9pOMw@mail.gmail.com> (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy's message of "Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:18:24 +0700")
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On second thought, it might not be such a good idea. There are *lots*
>> of variables that control the operation of each command, and it's hard
>> to decide which ones to list and which ones to omit. I've listed all
>> the relevant variables for git-push, except the advice.* variables- I
>> don't know how useful such a long list might be.
>
> I think listing receive.* and advice.* (and maybe even
> remove.<name>.*) is still ok. The goal is to give users a clue.
> They'll need to look up in config.txt anyway for explanation. If we
> name the config keys (and groups) well then users should be able to
> guess what those keys may be for before deciding whether to look into
> details.
Please do not label the list as "These variables affect this
command" to give a false impression that it is the complete list if
it isn't.
Unless somebody promises to keep an up-to-date complete list there
(or even better, come up with a mechanism to help us keep that
promise automatically, perhaps by annotating pieces with structured
comments in config.txt and automatically appending such a section to
manual pages of relevant commands), that is.
With a weaker phrase, e.g. "These configuration variables may be of
interest", such a list may not hurt readers, but personally I do not
think it adds much value to have a list of variables without even a
single line description of what each is used for.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 0:25 push.default documented in "man git-push"? David Glasser
2012-10-02 15:09 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-02 15:18 ` David Glasser
2012-10-02 15:38 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-02 16:45 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-02 16:56 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-02 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-02 17:25 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-02 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-02 19:00 ` David Glasser
2012-10-02 19:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-03 7:54 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-03 8:52 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-03 8:14 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-03 8:17 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-03 8:23 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-03 8:46 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-03 10:18 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-03 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-10-03 21:40 ` Jeff King
2012-10-08 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-07 16:09 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-07 20:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-08 7:27 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-08 8:35 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-03 18:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-04 2:01 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-04 5:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-05 6:34 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-05 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-11 12:43 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-11 14:18 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-11 14:43 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-11 16:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-03 11:58 ` Peter Krefting
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