Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Actually I think we should have this in 1.6.5.X as well for it to be useful. Am I mistaken? -- 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