From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] Undocument deprecated alias 'push.default=tracking' Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:11:44 -0800 Message-ID: <20130131201144.GJ27340@google.com> References: <1334933944-13446-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <1335170284-30768-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <1335170284-30768-3-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <7vvcadgss0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130131190747.GE27340@google.com> <7vip6dgmx2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130131195712.GH27340@google.com> <7va9rpgm06.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0?= Bjarmason , Matthieu Moy , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Michael Haggerty To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 31 21:12:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U10UX-00033t-IL for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:12:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756721Ab3AaULw (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:11:52 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:33339 "EHLO mail-pb0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753567Ab3AaULu (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:11:50 -0500 Received: by mail-pb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id ro12so1775647pbb.14 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:11:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=Uq8RVTRnh/dVw7S8cONXHornUuBipMoWDmTAmPM+Ga4=; b=K5ADaVsVuBKEnkB9BcRej7Azufn9UfXlBbDcdVUyXGZdz1GDBh+BEah8l9g5UeOsJ6 aU6YFn+Fgf5ojjaGOFYeLhATEByYrUdqaUrqsetktuTIjagRYeGU12i3sh1pN3UnhW4E sc1JHn7blHJbMa4W1zK5Fe1yQGz1Cx5HvZwr1jZm+wq2hLPheDesyXjMES9yxMXFA7nG 51ICFzbY/Fz+fYh7dTpB1FFsgYbDP7Hhgk4oxZ5QpLc7pvX/ZK9ahFIBOeljgTR5/h7Z W3gMDbcEu3hfLaC2kQtEPH3TsMTCJ2S4AVN1baCH0lXs3i8SFF0f9DNUmdOCUFtNFiOo U6mg== X-Received: by 10.66.81.199 with SMTP id c7mr23448614pay.39.1359663110198; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:11:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from google.com ([2620:0:1000:5b00:b6b5:2fff:fec3:b50d]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id rv8sm5906033pbc.27.2013.01.31.12.11.47 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:11:48 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7va9rpgm06.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: >> That works because, as you mention, the usual way to look up an option >> in manpages is to search for "--print", including the two minus signs. >> >> Unfortunately an analagous approach in gitconfig(5) would be seriously >> broken, because searching for "tracking" (no minus signs) is going to >> hit many false positives. I do not think such a change would be an >> improvement. > > I thought your example was that you saw "pull.default = tracking" > and wondering what it is. Why do you need global search for > "tracking", not just near pull.default is described, in the first > place? Because the UI for local searches in web browsers and man pagers is seriously lacking. Or, because people have bad habits and do not take apppropriate advantage of search in small subsections of a document. All I know is that I have seen myself and others doing searches analagous to "--print" and not seen searches analagous to "tracking". Am I really the only one that doesn't see the "--print" change as hiding an option and sees burying "tracking" in the text as qualitatively different? Jonathan