Hi
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, at 15:15, Shubham Kanodia wrote:
> When I run — `git maintenance register` to register a particular
> repository for maintenance,
> it appends a new entry to `~/.gitconfig` with the repo name.
>
> ```
> [maintenance]
> repo = /path/to/repo-1
> repo = /path/to/repo-2
> ```
>
> Now, since git uses the INI format for these files, this would imply that
> repo-2 actually overrides repo 1 for maintenance.
>
> This implies that a user can only register a single repository on
> their system for
> maintenance.
Imply? Did you test this? From memory this is a multi-valued config, and
multi-valued configs are sometimes listed by using `=` multiple times
for the same config variable. That’s also what [this] email says:
“ The 'git maintenance [un]register' commands set or unset the multi-
valued maintenance.repo config key with the absolute path of the
current repository. These are set in the global config file.
🔗 this: https://lore.kernel.org/git/5aa9cc1d6b93b5ad3d66ac01a4518a91ced39bcb.1664287021.git.gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx/
I’ve never seen that git config uses the INI format. I’ve had the
impression that it is a bespoke format that simply looks like the INI
format. (But is the INI format even standardized?)
I have two repositories registered. When I run this:
```
git for-each-repo --config=maintenance.repo maintenance run
```
Well, it doesn’t tell me what repositories are being manipulated, but I do get two of these lines:
```
Enumerating objects: […]
```
So I surmise that this command is being run twice.
--
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
