[MacPorts] #63953: git: Configuration file is replaced on update

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#63953: git: Configuration file is replaced on update
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  Reporter:  Bachsau  |      Owner:  ci42
      Type:  defect   |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal   |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports    |    Version:
Resolution:  wontfix  |   Keywords:
      Port:  git      |
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Comment (by Bachsau):

 This is a very bad attitude. Configuration files are there for a reason:
 To allow the user to configure things. Otherwise, the changes could just
 be compiled in. Besides that, on managed multi-user systems (even if that
 might not be very common for Macs), one can not maintain system defaults
 in the per-user files, which is why system-wide configuration files exist.
 A good package manager would not even make this port specific but refrain
 from overwriting anything in /etc that's different from the previous
 version's package contents. Special handling is not needed. Merging things
 or saving .dist-files are comfort features that are nice to have, while
 replacing user-defined configuration files is destructive!

 @cjones051073 I expect to have to maintain my changes across updates, but
 I can't do that, when everything is lost. Additionaly, most software does
 not require changes to configuration files on every update. Git does not.
 Compiled-in default rarely change, and git happily accepts even the most
 ancient of configurations. It just reads what it understands and ignores
 any settings that might have been removed. The vast majority of users
 would also not have problems if everything unchanged is updated properly,
 while for those who do changes, replacing the file definitely DOES break
 things. Suddenly I accidently commit files to my repos that should be
 ignored (like "Icon\r"), aliases stop working, and unicode filenames get
 decomposed. Closing bugs as "wontfix" is just another way of saying: "I
 don't care and I'm too lazy to work on it."

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63953#comment:13>
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