Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] user-configurable git-archive output formats

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:28:48 -0700 (PDT)

René Scharfe <[email-masked]> writes:
> Am 16.06.2011 00:30, schrieb Jeff King:
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 04:45:21PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>> 
>>> The gzip path is not configurable at all. Probably it should read the
>>> path and arguments from the config file. In fact, we could even allow
>>> arbitrary config like:
>>>
>>>   [tarfilter "tgz"]
>>>     command = gzip -c
>>>     extension = tgz
>>>     extension = tar.gz
> 
> Configuration options whose values are appended instead of overwritten
> by duplicate definitions are a new concept for git, I think.  Perhaps
> it's not a big thing, but I think it's better avoided.

Actually they are not a new concept, but they are quite rare.  `git config`
has even special options to deal with them ('--replace-all', '--add', 
'--get-all', '--unset-all'.

For example "core.gitProxy" can be set multiple times, and of course
"remote.<remotename>.fetch", 'pull' and 'url'.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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