Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: 2006-05-09 21:26:41
hoi :)

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:08:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > What's the advantage of section quotation marks over just allowing these
> > characters in regular section names?  To be specific, what is wrong with:
> > 
> >    [jc/show-branch-dense]
> 
> This would _suck_
> 
> What if you have a branch called "core"? Not all all unlikely. 
> 
> Think about what a section like
> 
> 	[core]
> 
> really means.
> 
> Plus I really want to not be case sensitive by default. Case sensitivity 
> really is _not_ normal for this kind of config file syntax.

So why is everybody trying to munch all branch related data into
one .ini style config file?

why not simply use the mechanisms we use elsewhere and build something
like our remotes or the new HEAD file?

-- 
Martin Waitz

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