Certain settings, like ignore-glob or binary-glob can have a really long list
of items, which may be edited from time to time.
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.
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.
My suggestion is this:
Have some form of shorthand notation – a text replacement macro, if you like –
(like the string “~global~”, for example – or some other that is very unlikely
to be an actual filename – or even something that is impossible to be a
filename depending on the underlying OS), to let one import all the global
settings for the given setting when specifying the local setting.
So, if the global setting is
binary-glob (global)
*.bin,*.bmp,*.com,*.dll,*.ico,*.exe,*.gif,*.jpg,*.mdb,*.mp3,*.mp4,*.obj,*.pdf,*.png,*.rar,*.jar,*.res,*.rtf,*.wav,*.zip,*.ppu,*.o
and the local setting needs to add to the above list just one item (*.pmp), one
could do this:
fossil set binary-glob ~global~,*.pmp
(where ~global~ can appear anywhere, first, in-between, or last) and fossil set
will display (in this case):
binary-glob (local)
*.bin,*.bmp,*.com,*.dll,*.ico,*.exe,*.gif,*.jpg,*.mdb,*.mp3,*.mp4,*.obj,*.pdf,*.png,*.rar,*.jar,*.res,*.rtf,*.wav,*.zip,*.ppu,*.o,*.pmp
However, the substitution of (macro) ~local~ should occur only at run-time so
that a possible later update of the global setting will be automatically
carried over to all local settings using ~global~
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.)
Thanks.
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