From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: Yukai Chou <muzimuzhi@gmail.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add --show-names for git config
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:02:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy14p27a3.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZsWPBCW-pI4qIykK@tanuki> (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:53:56 +0200")
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 09:04:50AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> As to the name, I tend to agree that --show-names is a strange name
>> for the option, and I would have even suggest making "--all" to show
>> the name by default and give "--hide-name" option to countermand it
>> if we were adding this topic afresh today. But that unfortunately
>> is all too late to change without much more effort than just changing
>> the name.
>
> Mh. Yeah, that might've been the better default indeed. The new command
> is still relatively young, but still, I don't know whether changing this
> is in the picture now.
Yeah, it appeared only in the latest release, and may not be relied
on yet.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-21 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-19 0:45 [PATCH] doc: add --show-names for git config Yukai Chou
2024-08-19 0:59 ` Yukai Chou
2024-08-19 16:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-08-19 18:27 ` [PATCH v2] " Yukai Chou
2024-08-19 19:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-08-21 6:53 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-08-21 16:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-08-21 6:53 ` [PATCH] " Patrick Steinhardt
2024-08-21 16:02 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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