René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Am 16.06.2011 00:30, schrieb Jeff King:
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 04:45:21PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>>
>>> The gzip path is not configurable at all. Probably it should read the
>>> path and arguments from the config file. In fact, we could even allow
>>> arbitrary config like:
>>>
>>> [tarfilter "tgz"]
>>> command = gzip -c
>>> extension = tgz
>>> extension = tar.gz
>
> Configuration options whose values are appended instead of overwritten
> by duplicate definitions are a new concept for git, I think. Perhaps
> it's not a big thing, but I think it's better avoided.
Actually they are not a new concept, but they are quite rare. `git config`
has even special options to deal with them ('--replace-all', '--add',
'--get-all', '--unset-all'.
For example "core.gitProxy" can be set multiple times, and of course
"remote.<remotename>.fetch", 'pull' and 'url'.
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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