Re: [PATCH 3/4] push: make non-fast-forward help message configurable

[Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>]

Nanako Shiraishi schrieb:
> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> 
>> Speaking of which, has anybody felt annoyed by this message?
>>
>>     $ git reset --hard HEAD^^
>>     HEAD is now at 3fb9d58 Do not scramble password read from .cvspass
>>
>> This is not "maybe you should try this", but I would consider that it
>> falls into the same "I see you are trying to be helpful, but I know what I
>> am doing, and you are stealing screen real estate from me without helping
>> me at all, thank you very much" category.
> 
> You may be fixated at the sha1 part of the message when you find this
> message annoying, but I disagree strongly. I always appreciate the assurance
> this message gives me that I counted the number of commits correctly,
> whether I say HEAD^^^^ or HEAD~7.
> 
> Showing the subject of the commit you are now at is very useful and I will
> be equally irritated as you do if it starts showing the subject of the
> commit I was at.

I agree 100% with your reasoning.

-- Hannes