From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: The git spring cleanup challenge
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 01:24:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60b5d281552d6_e359f20828@natae.notmuch> (raw)
Hello,
The premise is simple: git.git developers are experts in git, and therefore
they have fine-tuned their ~/.gitconfig to a point that is pretty far
from what any newcomer will experience for a long time.
How long can you survive with a pristine configuration?
Plenty of developers take many things in their configuration for
granted, they forget what the default behavior is, or worse: they forget
they actually have configured log.decorate, and are surprised when they
discover the reason they could not reproduce a bug report.
Now and then I cleanup my configuration to be reminded of that fact.
Anybody remembers merge.defaultToUpstream, and what `git merge` without
arguments used to do? [1] What about sendemail.chainReplyTo? [2]
It's important that we force ourselves to experience what an
unconfigured git setup looks like, even if it's just for a little bit.
So the challenge is this:
1. Remove all the configuration that is not essential (just leave
user.name and user.email or equivalent)
2. Pick 2 configurations you think you can't live without. You are not
allowed to change them afterwards.
3. Every day you can add 1 additional configuration (and update it the
next day).
4. The moment you add a 4th configuration you lose.
Once you've lost, reply to this message with the configuration you could
not live without.
These are the configurations I've chosen:
[merge]
conflictstyle = diff3
[sendemail]
smtpserver = /usr/bin/msmtp
If if not clear yet, I hope by the end of this little experiment we will
have at least one configuration that surely everyone can agree needs to
become a default.
Do you think you can survive one month?
Good luck!
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/1296231457-18780-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/1369453492-20972-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com/
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Felipe Contreras
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-01 6:24 Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-06-01 7:28 ` The git spring cleanup challenge Andy
2021-06-01 10:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-01 7:47 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-01 10:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-01 11:40 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-01 12:21 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-01 12:28 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-01 13:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-02 4:13 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-02 4:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-03 8:03 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-03 10:06 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-03 10:49 ` Sergey Organov
2021-06-03 12:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-02 10:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-02 11:43 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-02 21:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-01 21:56 ` David Aguilar
2021-06-01 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-01 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-01 23:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-02 6:47 ` Johannes Sixt
2021-06-02 6:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-02 11:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-02 11:24 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-02 11:44 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-02 18:13 ` Johannes Sixt
2021-06-01 23:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-02 12:13 ` Sergey Organov
2021-06-03 3:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-03 10:00 ` Sergey Organov
2021-06-01 22:33 ` Sergey Organov
2021-06-01 23:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-02 12:19 ` Sergey Organov
2021-06-02 21:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-02 22:05 ` Sergey Organov
2021-06-02 22:33 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-02 23:09 ` Sergey Organov
2021-06-03 0:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-03 0:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-03 0:26 ` Elijah Newren
2021-06-03 1:36 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-03 4:25 ` Elijah Newren
2021-06-03 9:52 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-03 9:48 ` Sergey Organov
2021-06-02 3:43 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-06-02 3:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-03 8:15 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-03 11:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-03 12:31 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-03 14:28 ` Phillip Wood
2021-06-03 16:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-04 10:24 ` Phillip Wood
2021-06-03 17:28 ` Felipe Contreras
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