On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 02:00:03AM +0100, Xavier Maillard wrote: > I think the following form is more simple > --------------------------------- > [submodule] > crawler.url = url1 > search.url = url2 > --------------------------------- > > So, could we support such simpler form? > > Dunno if my vote will count but I really don't like your > proposition. I find clearer with the current notation. What's > more it forces people to be more rigorous when touching their > configuration file. > > git config is really simple to use and there should not be > difficult for anybody (even new git users) to set up git using > this helper tool. We should not recommend beginners to manually > edit their .git/config file when git-config could be used. git config hasn't exactly a excellent track-record for dealing with all the possibilities the config syntax allows. Adding yet another possibility will not make it any more reliable. Also your argument that people should git-config anyway instead of editing by hand kinda contradicts the need for a new format, since it would change anything for the git-config interface, only for people editing the file by hand... At the end of the day I don't think the benefits justify the effort. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- 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
