On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Nobody should ever use "git-config" normally. You should fire up your > > editor and just edit the damn file in place. But no, we don't have a > > man-page for that. > > Btw, one reason people end up talking about git-config is that it's easier > to tell *other* people to "run this command" than it is to tell them to > "edit this file so it looks like <xyz>". The other factor is that you sometimes want to tell somebody one option setting, and you're using a medium where there's a comprehension cost to newlines. So 'remote.origin.url blah' is more clear than '[remote "origin"] url = blah' in those contexts. And we don't seem to encourage '[remote origin] url = blah', even though it turns out to work fine (at least, I didn't know until I just now tried it that I could suggest it). -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- 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
