From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
"Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: introduce an Operating System-specific `includeIf` condition
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:07:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a07b5cd7-7ada-7cdf-78cc-375ef21687b0@dunelm.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqilj6plta.fsf@gitster.g>
Hi Junio
Welcome back, I hope you enjoyed your time away from the list.
On 23/11/2022 00:16, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> All the other items listed in your table such as branch names are case
>> sensitive. The os name is not so it is of no benefit at all to the
>
> You keep saying that you consider the OS name is case insensitive,
> but I doubt that is the case, not in the sense that MacOS and macOS
> are two different operating systems, but in the sense that OS
> publishers have a single preferred way to spell their ware (which is
> shown in "uname -s" output), and we should respect that.
I can see that we would want to respect the preferred spelling in our
documentation but it seems a bit mean to penalize users who write
[IncludeIf "os:windows"]
rather than
[IncludeIf "os:Windows"]
Best Wishes
Phillip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-23 15:09 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
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 [this message]
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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