Re: Rebase options via git pull

Đoàn Trần Công Danh [off-list ref] writes:

On 2021-05-17 15:33:18+0300, Sergey Organov [off-list ref] wrote:

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Probably add generic cmd.<cmd>.opts config support, so that I can say:

  git -c cmd.rebase.opts="--no-fork-point --empty=keep" pull --rebase

Thoughts?

It's been discussed before (but I did not dig up the discussions,
sorry). It's been considered a bad idea, because our commands are a
mixture of plumbing/porcelain commands and switches, so we want to be
able to reliably invoke say ls-tree with some switches internally,
without config tripping us up.

Of course we could make this sort of thing work by selectively ignoring
the config, but such a thing would be equal in complexity to the effort
of assering that it's safe to introduce new rebase.* config in the
codebase for every switch it has now, but with a less friendly interface
both for git itself and users.

I don't see much complexity here. We'd then just need to effectively
invoke ls-tree internally like this:

   git -c 'cmd.ls-tree.opts=' ls-tree

Not a big deal.

It's a big deal.

Scripts was written with plumbing command and expect stable output.
If such change can be accepted, a lot of scripts will begin to fail.

Makes sense. Then simply don't do it for plumbing?

Thanks,
-- Sergey Organov