From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] push: make non-fast-forward help message configurable Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 09:40:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20090907074051.GC1698@glandium.org> References: <20090906064454.GA1643@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090906064816.GC28941@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v8wgsk0rw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090906072322.GA29949@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vzl98fr22.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090907094457.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Matthieu Moy , Teemu Likonen , Git To: Nanako Shiraishi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 07 10:00:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MkZ9h-000520-Gq for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:00:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751743AbZIGIAn (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 04:00:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751687AbZIGIAn (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 04:00:43 -0400 Received: from vuizook.err.no ([85.19.221.46]:60888 "EHLO vuizook.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751444AbZIGIAn (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 04:00:43 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1181 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:00:42 EDT Received: from cha92-13-88-165-248-19.fbx.proxad.net ([88.165.248.19] helo=jigen) by vuizook.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MkYqG-0005cY-Pt; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:40:51 +0200 Received: from mh by jigen with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MkYqK-0000Rp-0B; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:40:52 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090907094457.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Status: (score 0.1): No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=disabled version=3.2.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:44:57AM +0900, Nanako Shiraishi wrote: > Quoting Junio C Hamano > > > 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'd say both are equally interesting information. Mike