Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

2013-03-18 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 02:30:23PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > > I don't think you can avoid the 3-step problem and retain the safety in > > the general case. Forgetting implementation details for a minute, you > > have either a 1-step system: > > > > 1. Fetch and st

Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

2013-03-18 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Jeff King wrote: > I don't think you can avoid the 3-step problem and retain the safety in > the general case. Forgetting implementation details for a minute, you > have either a 1-step system: > > 1. Fetch and start using config from the remote. > > which is subject to fetching and executing ma

Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

2013-03-12 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:01:08AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > > But it was pointed out that you could also just do: > > > > $ git config include.ref upstream-config > > $ git show origin/config ;# make sure it looks reasonable > > $ git show origin/config >.git/upstream-config > >

Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

2013-03-11 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 05:34:43PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have this itch where I want to share my remotes config between >> > machines. In my fork, I should be able to specify

Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

2013-02-19 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 05:34:43PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have this itch where I want to share my remotes config between > > machines. In my fork, I should be able to specify where my upstream > > sour

Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

2013-02-19 Thread Adam Spiers
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Hi, > > I have this itch where I want to share my remotes config between > machines. In my fork, I should be able to specify where my upstream > sources are, so remotes get set up automatically when I clone. There > are also other th

Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

2013-02-19 Thread Thomas Rast
Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: > Thomas Rast wrote: >> Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: >>> There are also other things in .git/config that would be nice to >>> share, like whether to do a --word-diff (why isn't it a configuration >>> variable yet?) >> >> Because that would break pretty much every scr

Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

2013-02-19 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Hi, > > I have this itch where I want to share my remotes config between > machines. In my fork, I should be able to specify where my upstream > sources are, so remotes get set up automatically when I clone. There > are also other th

Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

2013-02-19 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Thomas Rast wrote: > Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: > >> I have this itch where I want to share my remotes config between >> machines. In my fork, I should be able to specify where my upstream >> sources are, so remotes get set up automatically when I clone. > > Note that you need to carefully pick

Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

2013-02-19 Thread Thomas Rast
Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: > I have this itch where I want to share my remotes config between > machines. In my fork, I should be able to specify where my upstream > sources are, so remotes get set up automatically when I clone. Note that you need to carefully pick only certain bits of the co