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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] GSoC status update (config API improvements)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:11:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq7g2w71ja.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53D79A6A.2090302@gmail.com> (Tanay Abhra's message of "Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:28:18 +0530")

Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com> writes:

> a> Unsetting previously set values
> Local config files can be used to unset config values previously set in system
> files. The user may not have the privilege to touch the system files so he can
> leverage the new API to unset the previously set values.

I had totally forgotten about this, but this was the initial motivation
to write a config cache, so it would be a good conclusion for your
project.

Thanks to the patches you already wrote, the feature went from
"impossible to implement given the design" to "fairly straightforward to
implement" :-).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-29 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-29 12:58 [RFC] GSoC status update (config API improvements) Tanay Abhra
2014-07-29 13:11 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]

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