On 12/5/2015 10:05 AM, to...@acm.org wrote:
Certain settings, like ignore-glob or binary-glob can have a really long list of items, which may be edited from time to time.
This was the motivation for the invention of "versionable" settings, allowing the list to be maintained in a multi-line text file.
Ideally, the global setting should have the ones that apply to all repos, while the local setting only the ones that apply only to that specific repo.
IMHO, a repository should stand alone. It should provide all the specifications needed to work with and build. The "*-glob" settings are inherently project-specific, and could break scripts or other automation if they were changed unexpectedly. Specifying them completely as versionable settings minimizes that risk, and tracks them along with revisions of the project as a whole.
Global settings are for things that are obviously specific to a particular host and/or developer, and which need to be customized for each host and/or developer so that the repository works as intended. Settings like "proxy", any "*-command", and any described as providing a full pathname are obvious candidates for a global setting.
The problem is once you decide to use the local setting you need to specify the whole long list of items again for each repo. And if you later change the global setting you need to remember to redefine all local settings for repos that include more items in the same setting to include the changes of the global setting.
I believe this is an intended effect.
My suggestion is this: .... I hope I described this well enough to make sense. I also hope you see the usefulness of what I’m proposing. (Well, at least if you normally maintain more than just a few repos.)
It isn't too difficult to keep a reference set of default contents for the .fossil-settings folder and to write a site-specific script that tunes a new repository by copying in that folder and doing fossil add on it, and automating other customizations as needed.
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