Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> >> > Of course you can say that! ;-) The problem these ugly messages try to >> >> > solve is to give the user a hint which setting to change if they want to >> >> > override the default behavior, though... >> >> >> >> Ahh, OK, then dashed form would not work as a configuration variable >> >> names, so missingTaggerEntry would be the only usable option. >> > >> > Except that cunning me has made it so that both missing-tagger-entry *and* >> > missingTaggerEntry work... >> >> Then the missing-tagger-entry side needs to be dropped. The naming >> does not conform to the way how we name our officially supported >> configuration variables. > > But it does conform with the way we do our command-line parameters, Hmmm.... What is the expected user interaction? The way I read the series was ($MISSING_TAGGER stands for the "token" we choose to show): (1) The user runs fsck without customization, and may see a warning (or error): $ git fsck error in tag d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a: $MISSING_TAGGER (2) The user demotes it to warning and runs fsck again: $ git config fsck.$MISSING_TAGGER warn $ git fsck warning: tag d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a: $MISSING_TAGGER I suspect that it would be much better if the configuration variables were organized the other way around, e.g. $ git config fsck.warn missingTagger,someOtherKindOfError Then a one-shot override would make sense and easier to give as command line option, e.g. $ git fsck --warn=missingTagger,someOtherKindOfError But the proposed organization to use one variable per questionable event type (as opposed to one variable per severity level) would lead to a one-shot override of this form, e.g. $ git fsck --missing-tagger=warn --some-other-kind-of-error=warn which I think is insane to require us to support unbound number of dashed options. Or are you saying that we allow "git config core.file-mode true" from the command line to set core.fileMode configuration? Puzzled... -- 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