Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 03:27:09PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> I had the same trouble wording. Another thing I noticed was that I >> deliberately left it vague what "default" this does not override, >> because it appears to me that those who do not set logallrefupdates >> will get the compiled-in default and that is also not overriden. >> >> IOW, "does not negate the setting of core.logallrefupdates" will >> open us to reports "I do not have the configuration set, but I still >> get reflog even when --no-create-reflog is given". >> >> The negated form `--no-create-reflog` currently does not negate >> the default; it overrides an earlier `--create-reflog`, though. >> >> perhaps? > > True. I thought the default was "off", and that we merely set the config > when initializing a repo. But looking again, it really is checking > is_bare_repository() at runtime. > > I still think it is OK to mention, as the description of > core.logallrefupdates is where we document the behavior and the > defaults. So even with "I do not have it set", that is still the key to > find more information. OK, let's take yours as the final and merge it down to 'next' soonish.