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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Flags and config to sign pushes by default
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Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Yes, it looks somewhat strange.
> ... The straw-man
> strangeness is that two of them are the traditional boolean values
> "true/false" and the third is "file not found^W^W^Wif-possible" :)

It actually is not uncommon for a Git configuration variable to
start its life as a boolean and then later become tristate (or more)
as we gain experience with the system, so don't worry about it being
"strange".  A tristate, among whose choices two of them are true and
false, is not "strange" around here.

By "strange", I was referring to the possible perception issue on
having a choice other than yes/no for a configuration that allows
you to express your security preference.

Thanks.