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How does your bare repo handle a config file in different paths on Windows and MacOS where you want to ignore "last_update_time" field diff noise and also have

by eviks 1y ago

How does your bare repo handle a config file in different paths on Windows and MacOS where you want to ignore "last_update_time" field diff noise and also have OS-specific path references?

jitl 1y ago
using windows is out of scope for my lifestyle
hk1337 1y ago
Different branches for each OS.
- eviks 1y ago
  How does this help > ignore "last_update_time" field diff Also, OS-specific is in the env var (can also be machine specific, so now you have OS*machine number of branches?)
- jitl 1y ago
  sounds annoying af
tonymet 1y ago
branches and symlinks . Don't throw out the 99% solution because it's missing 1%
- eviks 1y ago
  How do either of those help ignore "last_update_time" field diff noise? Also, who is going to set those symlinks correctly, Mr. Git? Your solution is only 99% if you ignore the other 50% of real-life complications.
  - tonymet 1y ago
    it's just a tradeoff
    - eviks 1y ago
      "handles dotfiles better than any bespoke platform" means there are no tradeoffs
      - tonymet 1y ago
        it means the tradeoffs are the most reasonable. There's nothing in this world with no tradeoffs. Even this conversation has tradeoffs.