W. Trevor King wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:33:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> The resulting text may read like so: >> … > > I'm fine with this too, but if this is the suggested route, why bother > with `git config` at all? Is it just for ease of scripting? Yes. It can also be helpful when giving help over IRC, since you can get reproducible results without assuming the user has a proper text editor set up, but that is just a special case of scripting. ;-) For everyday interactive configuration editing, config files have some good advantages: - The settings are easy to read, well organized, and all in one place - The file can include comments. Thanks, Jonathan -- 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