On 2021-06-01 01:24:01-0500, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. OK, the person that forgot having log.decorate configured is me. > 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) How about alias? It's part of my muscle memory. > 2. Pick 2 configurations you think you can't live without. You are not > allowed to change them afterwards. Something is essential when working on constantly integration tree, I don't want to make my life hard: * rerere.enabled = true * rerere.autoupdate = true Something is there to shut up advice, I can live without those configuration value, though (I don't use git-pull these days, anyway): * pull.rebase = false Working with patch based need: * sendemail.smtpserver * sendemail.smtpencryption * sendemail.smtpuser * credential.helper My GnuPG key is Ed25519, and gpg v2 in my machine is named gpg2, so: * gpg.program = gpg2 And I would like to try new shiny features: * feature.experimental = true > 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. So, my baseline already requires 8 key-value pairs (ignoring alias and pull.rebase). I'm lost already. -- Danh
