Re: [PATCH 2/2] stash: remove the stash.useBuiltin setting

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Son Luong Ngoc <son.luong@booking.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul-Sebastian Ungureanu <ungureanupaulsebastian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] stash: remove the stash.useBuiltin setting
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 15:11:14 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2003061509530.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xqVyMnG6FiyL4hngPfEEMi5CKz1qN5Cy1TMMpLg3CmsBw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jacob,

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Jacob Keller wrote:

> Sorry this is on phone and might not hit the list since Gmail forces
> html.... but the docs say git-rebase when you meant git-stash.
>
> I didn't want to forget this before I got to a desktop

Good point. You mean this part, right?

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 10:20 AM Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/Documentation/config/stash.txt
> > b/Documentation/config/stash.txt
> > index abc7ef4a3a..0f3db821f6 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/config/stash.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/config/stash.txt
> > @@ -1,17 +1,9 @@
> >  stash.useBuiltin::
> > -       Set to `false` to use the legacy shell script implementation of
> > -       linkgit:git-stash[1]. Is `true` by default, which means use
> > -       the built-in rewrite of it in C.
> > -+
> > -The C rewrite is first included with Git version 2.22 (and Git for Windows
> > -version 2.19). This option serves as an escape hatch to re-enable the
> > -legacy version in case any bugs are found in the rewrite. This option and
> > -the shell script version of linkgit:git-stash[1] will be removed in some
> > -future release.
> > -+
> > -If you find some reason to set this option to `false`, other than
> > -one-off testing, you should report the behavior difference as a bug in
> > -Git (see https://git-scm.com/community for details).
> > +       Unused configuration Variable.  Used in Git versions 2.22 to
> > +       2.26 as an escape hatch to enable the legacy shellscript
> > +       implementation of rebase. Now the built-in rewrite of it in C
                              ^^^^^^

If so, I agree, that should be s/rebase/stash/.

Thanks for paying apparently more attention than I did!
Dscho

> > +       is always used. Setting this will emit a warning, to alert any
> > +       remaining users that setting this now does nothing.
> >
> >  stash.showPatch::
> >         If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an