From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (pb-smtp2.pobox.com [64.147.108.71]) (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 2D98E15098E for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.71 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1724256168; cv=none; b=YBzhntkTAfzEFfyp2A5Bcsmc93cr/D5zg9V+1bLqte4JzhvX14R7mOJq/RCJBzJgAzj8xmX91MIaIjVL++UX95Z8HyZUpfPmJ/4VuCBVNQte2Cit4VjNFcIjZsc9lrVq2agNcfzTW7Vtvm98Jw/hfiYt2ykN+7bcAXlucueQjt8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1724256168; c=relaxed/simple; bh=iMX+vYA9OIfKMQNKO+c5ACJAC1NlVvE0OWYl592/YhA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=YZWwkFikzhI75/OfPnIMz6nbEnEbuTlmD4d4zsmhpbk0okSkXESfC7AXWYKPRYmkGffOIBdo5CZFY/r49GqvmlkG4rUF5DnsbIy+Ihvorc3c/xDelGNBWVqFlFYlMAWY6mNIfNWuJp8DFRA/mM7TTIcpEwNFl4WKV92SO7mmMz4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b=S3g4LgEB; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.71 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="S3g4LgEB" Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9F9233DB; Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:02:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=iMX+vYA9OIfKMQNKO+c5ACJAC1NlVvE0OWYl59 2/YhA=; b=S3g4LgEB0YNRaAXELJ5KIYvEMkVaekgfUkVIhOYDjdFNMobGncKijs ynNeI/h/czAncJgaBrRut8CnKvF7vUX6KvBIRQoQK9uilEvO6r6+wCpEXdwwRAEA JOPWft0DnbyDWNjK24axjflOkIFmLK25cQE0BANHYizYVxKlsp3vs= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018C1233DA; Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:02:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.125.94.240]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6412F233D9; Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:02:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: Yukai Chou , "git@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add --show-names for git config In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:53:56 +0200") References: Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:02:44 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: CDECEB6E-5FD6-11EF-8BCD-9B0F950A682E-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Patrick Steinhardt writes: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 09:04:50AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> As to the name, I tend to agree that --show-names is a strange name >> for the option, and I would have even suggest making "--all" to show >> the name by default and give "--hide-name" option to countermand it >> if we were adding this topic afresh today. But that unfortunately >> is all too late to change without much more effort than just changing >> the name. > > Mh. Yeah, that might've been the better default indeed. The new command > is still relatively young, but still, I don't know whether changing this > is in the picture now. Yeah, it appeared only in the latest release, and may not be relied on yet.