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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] config: add conditional include
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 16:48:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AvxC-p9=no+tYBc80-MWfApQ_QBagk0x7NXJDG9D=ZRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607161507250.28832@virtualbox>

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> As an alternative solution to your problem, you could of course avoid all
> conditional includes. Simply by adding the include.path settings
> explicitly to the configs that require them. Now, that would make reasoning
> and trouble-shooting simple, wouldn't it?

I can't. Repos can be created and destroyed often (it's in the
process), and there are many of them. Using a wrong identity (among
other incorrect config settings) is a serious problem and I cannot
guarantee myself that I will never make a mistake, forgetting to
include stuff on new clones.

>> > I still fail to see what use case this would benefit,
>>
>> It allows you to group repos together. The first mail that started all
>> this [1] is one of the use cases: you may want to use one identity in
>> a group of repos, and another identity in some other. I want some
>> more, to use a private key one some repos and another private key on
>> some other. Some more settings may be shareable this way, like coding
>> style-related (trailing spaces or not...)
>>
>> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/273811
>>
>> > and I already start to suspect that the change would open a can of worms that might not be desired.
>>
>> You can choose not to use it, I guess.
>
> Sadly, as the maintainer I am unable to share in that luxury of yours.

I need this. And I post it because people may need it too. But if it's
a bad thing, I guess I'll keep this patch on my tree then.
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-16 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-26  7:06 [PATCH] config: add conditional include Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-26 18:27 ` Jeff King
2016-06-27 16:14   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-27 16:20     ` Jeff King
2016-06-27 16:32       ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-27 16:35         ` Jeff King
2016-06-28 17:26 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Config " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-28 17:26   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] add skip_prefix_mem helper Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-28 17:26   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] config: add conditional include Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-06-28 20:49     ` Jeff King
2016-06-29  4:06       ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-28 23:11     ` Eric Sunshine
2016-07-12 16:42     ` [PATCH v3] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-07-13  7:21       ` Matthieu Moy
2016-07-13  7:26         ` Jeff King
2016-07-13 12:48           ` Matthieu Moy
2016-07-13 15:57         ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-14 15:33       ` [PATCH v4] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-07-14 15:53         ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-14 16:13           ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-16 13:30             ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-16 14:48               ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2016-07-16 15:08               ` Jeff King
2016-07-16 16:36                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-16 16:47                   ` Jeff King
2016-07-17  8:15                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-20 13:31                       ` Jeff King
2016-07-20 22:07                         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-20 16:39                     ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-13  8:40         ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-19 13:54           ` Jeff King
2016-08-20 21:08             ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-22 12:43               ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-22 12:59                 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-08-22 13:09                   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-22 13:22                     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-08-22 13:32                       ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-23 13:42                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-24  9:37                           ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-24 12:44                             ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-24 14:17                               ` Jeff King
2016-06-28 20:28   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Config " Jeff King
2016-06-28 20:51     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-06-28 21:03       ` Jeff King
2016-06-29  4:09     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-28 22:11   ` Junio C Hamano

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