Re: [PATCH 3/3] builtin-merge: add support for default merge options

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

I think it would be much better if you did not introduce a new
configuration merge.options which is not consistent with everything else
to begin with.

Instead, if your addition was literally to allow saying things like this,
it would be much easier to understand.

       [branch "*"]
               mergeoptions = ...
               remote = origin
               rebase = true

Okay. That's probably a more invasive patch, because a lot more code
paths look at [branch ...], but I'll look into it.

So overall, cumulative configuration tend to be more cumbersome for the
end user to manage.

Okay, you've convinced me.

j.