[bug#69780] [PATCH 1/4] git authenticate: Record introduction and keyring in ‘.git/config’.

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi!

Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> skribis:

>> The only open issue left is branches: how to configure different
>> introductions for different branches.  I’m all ears!
>
> Right, so I have few ideas, not sure if they are any good though.  And I myself
> am not really sure which one I like the most, so...

[...]

> The problem here is that any possible "smart" solution leaves something to be
> desired.  Either it is not automated enough (new branches are unconfigured), or
> it is too magical (new branches inherit the config from... something).  5. is
> probably the most flexible and covering edge cases, but will not be exactly
> one-line change.
>
> Hm, now when I read it after myself, maybe it is just not a problem worth
> solving.  All of these are likely to complicate the code quite a bit.  Not sure.
>
> Dunno, was this of any help? :)

Yes, in a way.  :-)

For me the takeaway is that we shouldn’t go to far in attempting to
address this.  The proposal we came up with Skyler, where
‘introduction-commit’ is taken as the default but may be overridden by
‘introduction-commit-BRANCH’ sounds reasonable:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/69780#17

It does mean that people who need this would have to manually edit their
‘.git/config’, but I think that’s acceptable: that’s an advanced use
case.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.