Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, sean wrote:
>
> [core]
>  ...
> [branch.core]
>  ...
> [remote.core]
>  ...

Ok. In that case, I would suggest a much more readable format:

	[core]
		...

	[branch "core"]
		...

	[remote "core"]
		...

and yes, enforce the <space>+<quoted name> format. We'd turn it internally 
into some random internal string format (probably replacing the space with 
a dot, and removing the quotes, so it would become "remote.core.<key>").

> But it's not just the config file, it's also how it ends up being used
> on the command line.. 

Actually, the command line migth as well allow any strange thing, and 
_add_ the quotes internally. So you could do something that does

	git repo-config set Remote.Core.Pull master

and we could just let that generate

	[remote "Core"]
		pull = master

or whatever.

I care about the _file_ being human-editable, but that means that I think 
it's perfectly fine to have some smarts in the tools that help us do so, 
and let them recognize the magic "remote" and "branch" prefixes.

		Linus