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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
To: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jim Greenleaf <james.a.greenleaf@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git stash deletes/drops changes of
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 12:14:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130524101416.GO12252@machine.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130524100612.GA27005@serenity.lan>

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:06:12AM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
> I don't see anything wrong with having a template file documenting the
> parameters, but I think it's important that there are sensible defaults
> in place when the user's configuration file does not specify a value for
> a parameter.  It wasn't clear to me from your definition that there were
> defaults to be overridden by the user's configuration file, as opposed
> to forcing the user to define certain values and causing an error if
> those are not defined.

That's the case in plenty of situations - when specifying usernames and
passwords and server hostnames, paths to cross-compiling environments
that pretty much everyone has at a different place, and so on.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
	For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear,
	simple, and wrong.  -- H. L. Mencken

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-24 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-04 16:24 git stash deletes/drops changes of "assume-unchanged" files Adeodato Simó
2013-05-23 16:57 ` git stash deletes/drops changes of Jim Greenleaf
2013-05-23 22:10   ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-23 22:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-23 22:56       ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-23 23:20         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-24 15:25           ` Phil Hord
2013-05-24 15:34             ` Jim Greenleaf
2013-05-24 15:38               ` John Keeping
2013-05-24 15:42                 ` Jim Greenleaf
2013-05-24 16:01                   ` John Keeping
2013-05-23 23:57         ` Petr Baudis
2013-05-24  8:22           ` John Keeping
2013-05-24  9:40             ` Petr Baudis
2013-05-24 10:06               ` John Keeping
2013-05-24 10:14                 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2013-05-24 10:40                   ` John Keeping
2013-05-24 11:03                     ` Petr Baudis
2013-05-24 12:42                       ` John Keeping
2013-05-24 14:26         ` Stephen Bash

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