Hi, On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:07:51PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > Yes, as a matter of fact, I do work on 10 different computers. I'm sorry > > > that you find managing your configuration so challenging. But if you > > > don't use the configuration variable, then your own personal setup is > > > totally irrelevant. > > > > As I just demonstrated, this is a false statement. > > I must have missed where you demonstrated it. Usually, my mails are minimal, and I do not write as many mails as I used to anymore, so it is hard to miss what I am saying. For your benefit: both Junio and me talked about experts helping users. Even if I do not use the config options, I am affected. And it does hurt. > > > If your argument is that this lack of consistency will irritate users, > > > you need to show that: > > > > > > 1. There are users who switch between a large number of setups, but > > > will not apply config consistently. > > > > This is a strawman, and you should be ashamed to put it here. Just > > How is this a strawman? You are comparing config settings which must be different, because they affect _what_ project you are working with, with config settings that affect _how_ you can work with them. > When the number of "git grep" crash fatalities rises above zero, maybe > this line of reasoning will be relevant. Sure. Let's wait for the first crash fatality, and only react then. No need to think ahead. That's it. I don't think that I want to participate in this kind of discussion anymore, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html