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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re-evaluating the practice of automating user configuration
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:46:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edhododn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZTFFgm7ecylIZSKz@ws> (Tomas Volf's message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:04:34 +0200")

Hello,

Tomas Volf <wolf@wolfsden.cz> writes:

[...]

> I have to admit I was surprised, and not in a pleasant way.  When I started
> playing with Guix, I went over the etc/git/gitconfig and copied the parts I
> liked into the .git/config.  For some reason I do not like tools automatically
> touching the .git directory, and now I have the include there (5 times).

I think it's mostly surprising because Git itself doesn't provide for a
way to provision sane per-project settings, which is what the build
system of Guix does.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim


  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-21 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-19 14:36 Re-evaluating the practice of automating user configuration Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-10-19 15:04 ` Tomas Volf
2023-10-21 14:46   ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2023-10-21 14:45 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-10-21 15:32   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-10-21 23:44     ` Tomas Volf

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