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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Joachim B Haga via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org,  Joachim B Haga <jobh@simula•no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: add setting to hide unknown refs
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2023 06:13:07 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqil581jq4.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.1619.git.1701695899635.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Joachim B. Haga via GitGitGadget's message of "Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:18:19 +0000")

"Joachim B Haga via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail•com> writes:

> This patch adds a setting to gitk to exclude all unknown refs - which
> is considerably simpler than trying to honour the `excludeDecoration`
> pattern.

"This was simpler to implement" is a one-time cost savings for the
developer who added the feature.  For that one-time cost savings,
all the current and future users will pay the price of inconsistent
behaviour between "gitk" and "git log".

It does not look like a good trade-off.

      reply	other threads:[~2023-12-08 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-04 13:18 [PATCH] gitk: add setting to hide unknown refs Joachim B Haga via GitGitGadget
2023-12-08 21:13 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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