Hello,
The premise is simple: git.git developers are experts in git, and therefore
they have fine-tuned their ~/.gitconfig to a point that is pretty far
from what any newcomer will experience for a long time.
How long can you survive with a pristine configuration?
Plenty of developers take many things in their configuration for
granted, they forget what the default behavior is, or worse: they forget
they actually have configured log.decorate, and are surprised when they
discover the reason they could not reproduce a bug report.
Now and then I cleanup my configuration to be reminded of that fact.
Anybody remembers merge.defaultToUpstream, and what `git merge` without
arguments used to do? [1] What about sendemail.chainReplyTo? [2]
It's important that we force ourselves to experience what an
unconfigured git setup looks like, even if it's just for a little bit.
So the challenge is this:
1. Remove all the configuration that is not essential (just leave
user.name and user.email or equivalent)
2. Pick 2 configurations you think you can't live without. You are not
allowed to change them afterwards.
3. Every day you can add 1 additional configuration (and update it the
next day).
4. The moment you add a 4th configuration you lose.
Once you've lost, reply to this message with the configuration you could
not live without.
These are the configurations I've chosen:
[merge]
conflictstyle = diff3
[sendemail]
smtpserver = /usr/bin/msmtp
If if not clear yet, I hope by the end of this little experiment we will
have at least one configuration that surely everyone can agree needs to
become a default.
Do you think you can survive one month?
Good luck!
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/1296231457-18780-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/1369453492-20972-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx/
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Felipe Contreras
