Junio C Hamano wrote: > Who said anything about a customer? > > A newcomer to a community (i.e. Matthieu's student) needs not just > to show technical excellence with patches, but needs to make a good > argument on a larger design decision; old timers already tried to > achieve a concensus on it, and did not manage to do so the last time > we tried. And sorry about the huge misunderstanding. I thought Matthieu was saying that the proposed configuration variable would be harmful to newcomers, and we should therefore not add it. I feel very silly about having written such a long response to something I misunderstood. -- 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