Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: retry acquiring config.lock, configurable via core.configLockTimeout

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 21:23:14 +0900

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:

> Footnote *1*: In general, I am quite wary of unit-less numbers in
> configurations.

Hear, hear.

I do not like unit-less names for variables that store numbers, not
just configuration but in-code variables.  In the longer run we want
to clean these up.  In-code variables are much easier to clean-up
than end-user facing configuration variable names, of course.