Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I actually consider "--no-optional-locks" to be such an aspirational > feature. I didn't go digging for other cases (though I'm fairly certain > that "diff" has one), but hoped to leave it for further bug reports ("I > used the option, ran command X, and saw lock contention"). OK, then we are essentially on the same page. I just was hoping that we can restrain ourselves from adding these "non essential" knobs at too fine granularity, ending up forcing end users to use all of them.