On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Jeremy Morton <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/11/2015 04:48, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: >> >> A lot of things in Unix do follow that "give you rope to hang yourself" >> philosophy. I used to (and to *some* extent still do) think like that, >> but some years of supporting normal users trying to do stuff has taught >> me it's not always that simple. >> >> I can easily see someone blogging some cool way to do something, and a >> less savvy user uses that in his gitconfig, and gets burned later >> (possibly much later, enough that he does not easily make the >> connection!) > > > We're not talking about "normal users" here, that's what Google Chrome is > for. We're talking about Git users using the commandline client. They ought > to know what they're doing and if they don't, they're screwed anyway because > there are quite a few gotchas with Git. > Just because you're an expert, doesn't mean you don't appreciate working without safety net. There are tons of people out there, who use Git for $REASONS (their boss told them so, it's cooler than $OTHERVCS, the project uses Git), without having the time to take a deep dive into Git. "It should just work". So I haven't tried Sitaram's script, but it looks like it can get your job done? -- 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