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From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Aleksey Midenkov <midenok@gmail•com>,
	Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail•com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git tedious verbosity
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 07:34:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k14se849.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200211195627.GF2127797@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:56:27 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:55:49PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:19:53PM +0300, Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
>> 
>> > Nice info, thanks. Does that disable maintenance messages like:
>> > 
>> > Updated 1 path from the index
>> 
>> I don't think it does. Usually how this works is that we add new
>> messages which we think might be helpful, enable them by default (since
>> users aren't likely to find out about them if they never see them!), and
>> then if they turn out to be annoying or verbose, add an advice.* config
>> option to allow people to avoid them.
>> 
>> The message quoted above is a relatively new one, and I don't think it's
>> hit that third step yet. Patches welcome. :)
>
> Oh, and if you want to see the complete list, look for "advice.*" in
> "git help config".

It says:

   All advice.* variables default to true, and you can tell Git that you
   do not need help by setting these to false:

If there were an option to set that default to 'false' (advice.default
maybe?), it'd have answered the demands of the experts, I think.

-- Sergey

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-12  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-10 21:00 Git tedious verbosity Abhishek Kumar
2020-02-11 14:19 ` Aleksey Midenkov
2020-02-11 19:08   ` Andrew Clayton
2020-02-11 19:55   ` Jeff King
2020-02-11 19:56     ` Jeff King
2020-02-12  4:34       ` Sergey Organov [this message]
2020-02-12 17:28         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-13  4:45           ` Sergey Organov
2020-02-12 17:36         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-13  4:30           ` Sergey Organov
     [not found] <CAF8BazCScMN1sBspcCycOJBcepbkKfJUvh_hL9MSgNVvs4jKGQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-02-10 18:49 ` Aleksey Midenkov

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