On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 09:00 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 8/31/10 5:36 PM, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Perhaps local and so forth could be given a --dist=foo switch, and these > > sorts of errors could say "can't figure out your dist from git, use --dist > > or fix your repo". > > Yeah, I've been working in my head a fallback route, which might > eventually fall back to forcing a --branch or --dist option, something > like: See if there is a branch.merge setting, if not see if there is a > branch.dist setting, if not see if the local branch name matches a > regex, if not tell the user to provide --dist. Having the command-line option take priority whenever it is given would be a more conventional design. And it would be useful if branch.dist (or a working-tree file, as I am advocating) could override the local and upstream branch names even when they do follow the pattern for a dist value. -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
