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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Phillip Wood" <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: introduce an Operating System-specific `includeIf` condition
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:32:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y3wKe7aO7I7bpmLm@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.1429.v2.git.1669058388327.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 07:19:48PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:

> It is relatively common for users to maintain identical `~/.gitconfig`
> files across all of their setups, using the `includeIf` construct
> liberally to adjust the settings to the respective setup as needed.

This seems like a reasonable thing to have in general, but I wonder if
you have an example of how people use this. Mostly I am wondering:

  - is it sometimes a misuse, where users _think_ that the OS is
    correlated with some feature of Git.  And they would be better off
    with some flag like "does the current platform support fsmonitor".

  - for cases where it really  is "uname -s" the best differentiator? Or
    would they commonly want to lump FreeBSD and Linux into the same
    category, or to tell the difference between Debian versus Fedora?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-21 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-21 13:39 [PATCH] config: introduce an Operating System-specific `includeIf` condition Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2022-11-21 13:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-21 15:51   ` Phillip Wood
2022-11-21 19:18     ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-11-21 19:19 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2022-11-21 23:32   ` Jeff King [this message]
2022-11-23 11:54     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2022-11-24  0:56       ` Jeff King
2022-11-22 14:01   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-22 14:31     ` Phillip Wood
2022-11-23  0:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-23 15:07         ` Phillip Wood
2022-11-23 23:51           ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-22 18:40   ` Philippe Blain
2022-11-23 10:40   ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-25  7:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-17  7:04       ` Samuel Ferencik
2023-04-17 18:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-18  2:04           ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-19 12:22           ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-04-19 14:26             ` Chris Torek
2023-04-19 14:32               ` Samuel Ferencik
2023-04-19 15:21             ` rsbecker
2023-04-19 16:07             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-19 16:14             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-22  0:03 ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano

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