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