@durin42 Done,

Now I understand that this patch does an enormous number of changes. I've split this patch into three. Will be working on each of them separately from now on.

@av6 I have updated the tests. @marmoute can we just get rid of (EXPERIMENTAL) in the output? If we want to do that, changes have to be made in ui.walkregisteredconfig(). But, that's a hack which appends to either name or value and as @av6 mentioned, the user will see it on using with -T which they might not wanted.

In D6731#99192, @pulkit wrote:

Looks like you forgot to update tests.

I'm able to reproduce the tests now. The case b2-binary can reproduce the test results.

In D6709#99166, @av6 wrote:

@marmoute did you want this flag marked as experimental or am I misremembering?

@pulkit Now I'm unable to reproduce the test result given in the bug report. It seems like the remote repo recognizes the secret changeset cf489fd8a374.

In D6731#98871, @pulkit wrote:

In such cases, I like the idea of having fix as two patches, first which demonstrates the bug and the second which fixes the bug. What do you think?

In D6730#98852, @av6 wrote:

The changes in tests that this patch causes are actually already present in the D6709, so let's fold this patch into it as well.

In D6479#98737, @durin42 wrote:

The only thing I'm curious about really is why we have extrastorage and usualstorge. Can we get away with only one of those choices instead of having more options?

In D6709#98718, @marmoute wrote:

I get 28 of them.
I think we need to add an experimental or status argument ot the config registration.

In D6709#98542, @mharbison72 wrote:

Should we hide devel.* like we do experimental when verbose isn’t applied? Presumably we don’t want regular users to know about them.

In D6709#98493, @marmoute wrote:

In D6709#98479, @navaneeth.suresh wrote:

@pulkit I couldn't figure out why the devel-warnings are coming. It's being shown for the following
items in configitems.py. IIUC, it should be visible when we are trying to read a config item which is
not in the registered items. But, we are iterating over registered items only.

There are "generic" config option. So it does not hold the option "name", but a regexp to match valid entry.

@pulkit I couldn't figure out why the devel-warnings are coming. It's being shown for the following
items in configitems.py. IIUC, it should be visible when we are trying to read a config item which is
not in the registered items. But, we are iterating over registered items only.