question: save preferences?

[btmurrell]

I would like to save preferences for my git-extras commands. for example, on git-create-branch and git-feature I would always want to use the -r option to create the remote branch of same name, with my default remote. It does not appear there is any way to do this. Please correct me if I am wrong.

If there is no way to do it, I wouldn't mind taking this on in a self-serving PR... but new to updating the project and git extensions in general. Would git-extras create it's own rc file? or could it create a section in .gitconfig (global) or .git/config (project)... If we were to use git's config file(s) each git-extra command might need its own block (maybe I don't want to use -r on both of the aforementioned commands).

Generate discussion here?

my current workaround is to create aliases for these commands to pass the args i want, but that's kind of ugly, and I'm running out of good alternate names for aliases. ;)

[spacewander]

@btmurrell
Currently there is no mechanism to save preferences. git-extras doesn't create its own configuration, though using the global ~/.gitconfig should be enough in the most cases. IMHO, all commands provided by git-extras can share a git-extras section, and use prefix to distinguish from each others.

[btmurrell]

ok, thanks, @spacewander. just a little experimenting, it looks like taking advantage of the existing git-config cli will work just great. How about this for a RFC:

to set a preference for a given command, say git-create-branch, any user could issue:

git config git-extras.create-branch.remote true

this creates an entry in .git/config thusly (would do same for global if --global flag were given):

[git-extras "create-branch"]
	remote = true

the implementation of all git-extras scripts, if they wished to be preference-aware, could check for a variable, using above as an example:

REMOTE_PREF=`git config git-extras.create-branch.remote`
if [ "$REMOTE_PREF" == "true" ]; then
  REMOTE=origin
elif [ -n "$REMOTE_PREF" ]; then
  REMOTE=$REMOTE_PREF
fi

I'm just exploring this idea. There are surely cases that I am not aware of. Have never written any git scripts. Don't know if this project follows a strict RFC protocol. Should I start a draft as a proposals/git-extras-preferences.md or something. Let me know.

[spacewander]

@btmurrell
You can implement the feature in the git-create-branch or git-feature, so that other people can follow you. There is no RFC in this project. We just follow the existing code.

[spacewander]

Closed as #761 is merged.