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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Joachim B Haga via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,  Joachim B Haga <jobh@simula.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: add setting to hide unknown refs
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"Joachim B Haga via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> This patch adds a setting to gitk to exclude all unknown refs - which
> is considerably simpler than trying to honour the `excludeDecoration`
> pattern.

"This was simpler to implement" is a one-time cost savings for the
developer who added the feature.  For that one-time cost savings,
all the current and future users will pay the price of inconsistent
behaviour between "gitk" and "git log".

It does not look like a good trade-off.