Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2006-05-09 11:57:08
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Yes, but that statefulness is inviting user errors, and you need
> to update repo-config and config parser anyway, so I still do
> not see what the advantage is.

Btw, I keep coming back to the same

	["jc/show-branch-dense"]
		remote = git://...

branch specifier syntax. It just seems very intuitive and is easy to 
parse. 

The only real downside ends up being the non-forwards-compatibility thing. 
But trying to be forwards-compatible for old git versions with this thing 
would seem to be a major pain for rather slim gain.

			Linus
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