From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] push: make non-fast-forward help message configurable Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:35:49 +0200 Message-ID: <4AA4B7D5.2090407@viscovery.net> 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Matthieu Moy , Teemu Likonen , Git To: Nanako Shiraishi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 07 09:36:32 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 1MkYm6-0007Cz-HT for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:36:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751753AbZIGHgV (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 03:36:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751711AbZIGHgV (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 03:36:21 -0400 Received: from lilzmailso02.liwest.at ([212.33.55.13]:38164 "EHLO lilzmailso02.liwest.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751514AbZIGHgU (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 03:36:20 -0400 Received: from cpe228-254.liwest.at ([81.10.228.254] helo=linz.eudaptics.com) by lilzmailso02.liwest.at with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MkYlt-00015z-H6; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:36:17 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (J6T.linz.viscovery [192.168.1.95]) by linz.eudaptics.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE9F735; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 09:36:16 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <20090907094457.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nanako Shiraishi schrieb: > 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 agree 100% with your reasoning. -- Hannes