On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote: > > Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > > > This whole discussion is basically implementing conditional config. > > [...] The problem is that it would be tricky to do in a > > backwards-compatible way. > > That could be done with "conditional comments" like > > # if <some-condition> then > [core] > pager = less > # endif > > That's rather ugly, and the implementation would be even more ugly, but > backward-compatible.
I highly doubt that you would want to be "backward compatible" in this case, though. The section of the configuration you are enclosing the new if/endif syntax may be understood only by newer Git (e.g. imagine core.pager is still bool-only today), and older Git that do not understand if/endif syntax will happily read that section and choke on it, no? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
