Re: [PATCH 0/5] Split .git/config in multiple worktree setup
From: Max Kirillov <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:07:22
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 09:07:07AM +0100, Duy Nguyen wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Max Kirillov [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
Using builtin defaults might be confusing for users - editing the info/config.worktree they must keep in mind the list of defaults (which they seem to don't know).All per-worktree variables are marked so in config.txt
If I were user I would like the list to be more explicit.
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Also, if anybody wants to extend the default list (like myself, for submodules), should they edit the info/config.worktree in provided template of extend the builtin list? What was wrong with the default in template?Suppose you introduce a new per-worktree variable in the new git version. If it's in the builtin list, we don't have to update every repo's info/config,worktree.
But how do you see it? Let's, for example, git-N consider some variable as per-repository, and user does have it their .git/config. Then git-N+1 considers it as per-worktree. How does it find the variable while opening some existing worktree? Then, if user sets the variable in some worktree using git-N+1, git-N will no longer be able to see the correct variable value. Does this mean that any change in builtin list should cause repository incompatibility? With defaults written in the info/config.worktree file the issue do not exist at all: you can open repository created with a git version with some default list of per-worktree veriables with a version with other default list. It all would work. If user decides to change the actual list of default per-worktree variable it is always can be done explcitly, with some provided convenience command for example. -- Max