Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Add a config verbose option fetch and push

From: Thomas Rast <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:44:31 +0200

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Since Peter Kjellerstedt wanted --ff-only, and you want --verbose. I
> wonder whether a better solution wouldn't be to farm this
> functionality out to the config parser.
[...]
>     [fetch "option"]
>         verbose = 1
> 
> Is there any reason not to add such a general facility?

That would completely ruin the scriptability of almost all commands.
Imagine the user added the following options as default:

  add --edit
  checkout --patch
  cherry-pick --no-commit
  commit --amend
  pull --rebase

I'm sure you can find one option that changes the command in something
completely different *for every command*.

In fact even pull --ff-only has the same problem since it will refuse
the merge in cases where an unmodified pull would go through.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch