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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
To: Joel Jacobson <joel@trustly•com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add .gitconfig variable commit.gpg-sign
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:37:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51767290.2010208@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAASwCXcfCNqiMXD5JasTRKWZgCNsxnUY7k9E=f86xsTZjk37CA@mail.gmail.com>

Joel Jacobson venit, vidit, dixit 23.04.2013 02:00:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
>> No docs?  No tests?
> 
> Maybe simply adding this text to git-commit.txt,
> 
> The default can be changed by the 'commit.gpg-sign' configuration
> variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
> 
> after,
> 
> -S[<keyid>]::
> --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
> GPG-sign commit.
> 
> would be sufficient?
> 
> Not sure what the proper way to test this,
> could you please suggest any other unit test I could look at for inspiration?
> 
>> As to the design, any regular configuration variable settings must
>> be overridable from the command line for a single invocation. Please
>> design an escape hatch in, for somebody who has this configuration
>> variable set, but does not want to sign this commit he is about to
>> make.
> 
> Something like --no-gpg-sign?
> 
>> Also do we generally use dash in the configuration variable names?
>> I thought the norm was section.CamelCase.
> 
> Since the command line long option is "gpg-sign", I thought it was best
> to use exactly the same term in the configuration variable name to
> avoid confusion. Is there any problem with dashes in variable names?
> 

Not really a problem, but as Junio writes, we don't use dashes in the
config.

As for the command line override:

Don't we have "git -c commit.gpgsign=false" and such these days, so that
we don't have to inflate options any more?

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-23 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAASwCXf3YHmdQ_eSkShyzn5VniO=ufm3VTqV1JVOUN610bzE_A@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-22 23:43 ` [PATCH] Add .gitconfig variable commit.gpg-sign Junio C Hamano
2013-04-23  0:00   ` Joel Jacobson
2013-04-23 11:37     ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2013-04-23 17:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-23 17:58         ` Joel Jacobson
2013-04-23 19:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-23 19:56             ` Joel Jacobson
2013-04-24  8:53               ` Sebastian Götte
2013-04-24  9:51                 ` Michael J Gruber
2013-04-24 17:30                   ` [PATCH 1/1] templates: pre-push hook: check for missing GPG signatures (was: Re: [PATCH] Add .gitconfig variable commit.gpg-sign) Sebastian Götte
2013-04-24 19:54                     ` [PATCH 1/1] templates: pre-push hook: check for missing GPG signatures Junio C Hamano
2013-04-25 12:19                       ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Sebastian Götte
2013-04-25 16:50                         ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]                       ` <cover.1366890748.git.jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de>
2013-04-25 12:19                         ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Sebastian Götte
2013-04-23 14:01   ` [PATCH] Add .gitconfig variable commit.gpg-sign Junio C Hamano

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