Glen Choo [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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"Glen Choo via GitGitGadget" [off-list ref] writes:

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This version incorporates most of Taylor's comments and suggestions. Thanks
especially for the wording suggestions, I struggled with those a lot :)

(I believe) I've responded upthread with my intention for each comment. The
only differences between that and the actual changes are:

 * In Documentation/git-config.txt, I dropped a suggestion to mention that
   "git config --local" is identical to the default behavior when writing
   options because I found it too hard to fit in.

 * In Documentation/config/discovery.txt, I took Taylor's suggestion, but
   didn't mention "discovery" for the same reasons.

 * I decided to leave out the protected config lookup functions. I made some
   POC patches at:

These patches overall looked ok.  I am not very happy to see the
proliferation of namespaces like safe.* and discovery.* that would
not likely to get the second variable, though.

Fair. I think `discovery.bare` is similar enough to `safe.directory`
that it could belong in the safe.* namespace if we find a good name for
it.

We rejected "safe.bareRepository" earlier because of the insinuation
that bare repos are unsafe. Maybe:

- safe.bareDiscovery
- safe.bareRepositoryDiscovery
- safe.unspecifiedBareRepository
- safe.discoveredBareRepository

"safe.unspecifiedBareRepository" is sounding pretty good to me
actually.. Any thoughts?

(+CC Johannes Schindelin for thoughts on what should go into `safe.*`
and/or design considerations that went into it.)

Another thought is that `discovery.bare` and `safe.directory` should
both indeed live in the same namespace, but that namespace should be
named something other than `safe.*`, e.g. if we had
`allowedRepositories.otherOwner` instead of `safe.directory`, it would
have been a no-brainer for me to put this in the `allowedRepositories.*`
namespace.

So an alternative proposal would be:

- rename this to `allowedRepositories.discoveredBare`
- (possibly not in this series, but at some point) create a
  `safe.directory` alias in that namespace, e.g.
  `allowedRepositories.otherOwner`

*But* I don't see the former making sense without the latter (I really
think both should be in the same namespace), so if we think that's
unnecessary churn, I'll drop this idea entirely.