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From: "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>
To: "Daniel Barkalow" <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user.default: New config to prevent using the default values for user.*
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:41:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8aa486160803051241y33b69938p6eb68784641672a1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803051516300.19665@iabervon.org>

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Santi Béjar wrote:
>
>
> > Useful when you want a different email/name for each repository
>
>  I still think it would be more intuitive if you made it so that setting
>  user.* to nothing was not an error, suppressed picking values up from the
>  system, and led (if not overridden again) to the message telling you how
>  to set them. Is there some reason you decided not to have that be how the
>  user triggers this behavior?

I first tried this way, but when I was writing the documentation I
found it more clean and easy if it was a separate config.

Santi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05 19:18 [PATCH] user.default: New config to prevent using the default values for user.* Santi Béjar
2008-03-05 19:54 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-03-05 20:36   ` Santi Béjar
2008-03-05 20:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-05 20:21 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-03-05 20:41   ` Santi Béjar [this message]
2008-03-05 20:44 ` Alex Riesen
2008-03-06 21:45   ` Santi Béjar
2008-03-07 16:41     ` Alex Riesen
2008-03-08  0:13       ` Santi Béjar
2008-03-08  1:24         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-08  2:08           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-08  2:22             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-05 21:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-05 22:35   ` Santi Béjar
2008-03-05 21:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-05 22:33   ` Santi Béjar
2008-03-05 22:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-05 23:23       ` Santi Béjar
2008-03-05 23:29         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-05 23:39           ` Santi Béjar
2008-03-06  0:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-06  8:08               ` Santi Béjar

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