(Administrivia) please do not cull CC list when replying. Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sep 01, 2015, at 02:28 AM, David Aguilar wrote: > >>While a script writer could write, "git -c core.cliversion=1 ...", >>no one does that, no one wants to do that, and it just seems >>like a bad idea that's best left unexplored. > > Sure, no one will do that from the command line, but I don't think people > generally change their preferences that often. Much more likely is that > they'll `git config` a more permanent choice for their shell usage and then > just use straight up "git" with the new ui. -c would be reserved for scripts > which hard code a particular ui. That way, you are forcing all the existing scripts to be updated to say "git -c ..." for _all_ invocations of Git they have, aren't you? That is simply unworkable. By the way, you can review what has already been said in this discussion here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/276509/focus=276589 -- 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