From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Enabling scissors by default? Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:42:07 -0800 Message-ID: <7vvcb7b8lc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <50EC92C6.7090509@ubuntu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Phillip Susi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 08 23:42:39 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 1TshsM-0001UM-JA for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:42:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755402Ab3AHWmL (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:42:11 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:62436 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753026Ab3AHWmJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:42:09 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E411B232; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:42:09 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=CM/tHAXMUXjv9RRixcDkFOWXZ1A=; b=NFAHmP kik/YSyVDdKf3Me9chCev+CCU3D5NnSGLZBa1GXg5ISGvDHjXSKnxOzR037+9yyq mG5RtMBSVkq140GD4zyxgPKDAgBzRLDgf5n9f6WNimb+k3CG3yUaj13Zw2L0+ovl JrEA5TdSZtN3o1oo2pXmWLAGCpnMSRjjsG+yA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=GCwd5pxHBYtC9wjqbQyGTI815GBig3ow a4erHKpL/8gal+swgdvDF9mkGKNgG64sCywag3YVKWgCG8ru+BDbz+lXm9c/SfkN QuMeLAXEb5mBVlFNeiPCbAvKX6paXFYCCpCu+cYr8aGTouOwrT5Wo+CJIH5Fsxmb b7hYJJQtFp0= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74194B231; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:42:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E8B2DB22E; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:42:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <50EC92C6.7090509@ubuntu.com> (Phillip Susi's message of "Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:42:30 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: A294BCE4-59E4-11E2-800A-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Phillip Susi writes: > I was wondering why am's scissors option is not enabled by default. It is very easy to miss misidentification of scissors line; as a dangerous, potentially information losing option, I do not think it should be on by default. Another reason (and this is the original one) why it is not enabled is to discourage the contributors from overusing scissors -- >8 -- line. If you always have to write too much stuff before the proper explanation of your patch, so that the integrator has to use -c option all the time, you are explaining your patches wrong.