Hi, On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Ramsay Jones wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Ramsay Jones wrote: > > > >> At present, the --global option is something of a misnomer, so > >> we introduce the --user option as a synonym, with the intention > >> of removing the old option in the future. > > > > Ack for the intention, except for "removing the old option in the future". > > We do not need to advertise it, but breaking existing functionality, which > > might be used by scripts and aliases is bad. > > > > Yep, which is why I made it a synonym; git-gui uses the --global option, for > example, and I'm confident that other (user) scripts use it too. The "future" > I had in mind was something like 1 year down the road, but it could be longer > (or forever) if necessary. Please read my reply as "I vote against ever removing the --global option". Ciao, Dscho - 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
