Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce configs for default repo format

On 2024-08-15 at 07:59:54, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

Hi,

to set up the default object and ref storage formats, users have to set
up some environment variables. This is somewhat unwieldy and not really
in line with how a user typically expects to configure Git, namely by
using the config system. It makes it harder than necessary to globally
default to the different formats and requires the user to munge with
files like `.profile` to persist that setting. Needless to say, this is
a bit of an awkward user experience.

This patch series thus introduces two new configs to set the default
object hash and ref storage format for newly created repositories. Like
this, folks can simply use the global- or system-level config to adapt
to their needs. This also has the advantage of giving them the ability
to adapt the default formats via guarded includes, such that e.g. repos
in some filesystem hierarchy use format A, whereas others use format B.

I like the idea of this series, which I think is a much nicer way to set
these defaults and can also correctly apply to existing terminal
windows.  As you mentioned, this also allows different configurations
per directory, and it makes it easier if you need to have a system-wide
policy for whatever reason.

I've taken a look at the patches and they seem fine to me.  Thanks for
sending them.
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brian m. carlson (they/them or he/him)
Toronto, Ontario, CA