From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (lindbergh.monkeyblade.net [23.128.96.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F284221114 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:15:02 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=none Received: from bluemchen.kde.org (bluemchen.kde.org [209.51.188.41]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D04FA4 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ugly.fritz.box (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bluemchen.kde.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2DF24054; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:14:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ugly.fritz.box (masqmail 0.3.6-dev, from userid 1000) id 1qv2GJ-kdW-00; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:14:59 +0200 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:14:59 +0200 From: Oswald Buddenhagen To: Dragan Simic Cc: Jacob Stopak , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce -t, --table for status/add commands Message-ID: References: <5fac8607a3c270e06fd610551d7403c7@manjaro.org> <58a6a25a7b2eb82c21d9b87143033cef@manjaro.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:51:31PM +0200, Dragan Simic wrote: >The hint should be about how to turn the tables and verbosity on, not >how to get rid of it. > but that's just backwards. a noob shouldn't be bothered with putting the tool into noob-friendly mode, neither actually nor "just" psychologically. switching to "expert" mode should be the conscious effort. and making it opt-in wouldn't even save the experts any annoyance, as they need to opt out from the hint anyway. regards