Re: [PATCH] git init: activate rerere by default

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

Johannes Schindelin, Thu, Jul 05, 2007 21:22:43 +0200:

quoted

Yes, templates are nice. But I don't think that templates are the way to 
go for introducing nice features as rr-cache.

Looks like you're trying to enforce the feature, not introduce.

Yes. Actually, since long I wondered if this feature should not be 
controlled by a core.rerere variable.

It changes the user-visible behaviour, and this can be unexpected.

Yes, but I think for the better.

It is not like you see people asking question: "How do I avoid repeating 
the same boring conflict?" every day on vger or irc.

That is because people have been trained to cope with CVS. They do not 
even know rerere exists.

That said, the templates are installed with every make install (and I 
suppose with every .deb and .rpm), and template is copied in every new 
repo, so people will get the rr-cache sooner or later. What's wrong with 
"a bit later" than "much sooner"?

In the part of my reply that you conveniently scissored, I explained that 
it is often not "a bit later", but "never".

Ciao,
Dscho