Re: [PATCH 0/8] config-include fixes

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:11:52PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > I prepared this on top of what you have queued in jk/config-include.
>> > However, all of the cleanup is semantically independent of the topic
>> > (though there are a few minor textual conflicts). If I were re-rolling,
>> > I would put it all at the front, then squash patch 8 into my prior
>> > "implement config includes" patch.
>> 
>> Sorry for being late in answering the "revert or build on top" question; I
>> was mostly offline yesterday afternoon.
>
> No problem. I did it as build-on-top because it's much easier to squash
> and reorder the commits later than it is to pick a re-roll apart into
> multiple commits.
>
> Which way did you want me to go with it?

I'll push out the re-roll that follows your outline above in 'pu'; I think
I got all the conflict resolved correctly, but please eyeball the result.

>> Looking at the rebased result, it strikes me that with_options version
>> 
>>     Furthermore, by providing a more "advanced" interface, we
>>     now have a a natural place to add new options for callers
>>     like git-config, which care about tweaking the specifics of
>>     config lookup, without disturbing the large number of
>>     "simple" users (i.e., every other part of git).
>> 
>> perhaps wants to get a pointer to struct config_lookup_options, instead of
>> us having to add a new parameter to all callsites every time a new need
>> is discovered.
>
> I considered that, but I noticed that the only callers who are really
> going to care about the _with_options version will be in
> builtin/config.c, and they all care about every option.

Ok.

Thanks.
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