Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2017, #04; Tue, 13)

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

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 It is not known if a simple "yes/no" is sufficient in the longer
 term, and what should happen when --recurse-submodules option starts
 taking "recurse into them how?" parameter, though.

Any pointers for where this has been discussed, if anywhere (e.g. was

If this were discussed, then the answer to the question we may know
by now ;-)  I do not think anybody gave a serious thought to convince
the public why a boolean is enough, hence this comment.

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* bw/config-h (2017-06-13) 4 commits
 - config: don't implicitly use gitdir
 - config: don't include config.h by default
 - config: remove git_config_iter
 - config: create config.h

 Code clean-up.

Patches 1-3 are good to go IMHO.

Patch 4 in pu is marked with my Reviewed-by.  I think it's getting
there but not there yet.  Did some script pull the tag from my reply
to the cover letter?

No, nothing that elaborate.  

I go through each message in Gnus newsreader and feed the article to
a shell command, e.g. "Meta/add-by -r jrnieder@ | git am -s3c".  The
UI remembers the last command I used when I choose to feed the next
article to a shell command, and after running it to first three, I
forgot to remove the 'add-by' bit from the command line for the fourth
one.