Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 01:45:45PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> This is a sane thing to do, as "slot" is part of the name of the variable, >> and we generally do not warn upon seeing a misspelled variable name (it >> makes it worse that "func" is not even misspelled but merely unknown to >> older version of git in your scenario). >> >> On the other hand, I suspect that most people would apprecfiate if their >> git pointed out "diff.color.finc? What do you mean?" before they waste >> 30 minutes wondering why the new feature in 1.6.6 does not work for them. > > I would be more sympathetic to that user if this weren't the _only_ set > of variables with this property. They don't get warned for diff.externel > or color.show-branch. True and fair enough. Let's have this in 1.6.6 then. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html