On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 09:41:30AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I, too, had a funny feeling about calling this "core". But I didn't have > > a better name, as I'm not sure what other place we have for config > > options that cross many command boundaries. "diff" and "status" don't > > seem quite right to me. While you can argue they are subsystems, it > > seems too easy for users to confuse them with the commands of the same > > names. > > > > Maybe there should be a "ui.*" config hierarchy for these kinds of > > cross-command interface options? > > I had an impression that ui.* was primarily pretty-printing, > colouring and things of such nature. I didn't think we had a "ui.*" so far. We have "color.ui" and "column.ui", but I think that's it. At any rate, my intent was to consider this a "ui" issue, in that we are deciding how the ahead/behind hints should be shown to the user. > I do not think it is such a > bad idea to honor a status.frotz variable that affects how (e.g. to > what degree of detailedness) status on frotz are reported in Git > subcommands other than 'git status' if they report the same sort of > information on 'frotz' that 'git status' makes. Is ahead/behind uniquely attached to git-status? IOW, could this be called "branch.aheadbehind" and git-status respects it? It seems like putting it in status introduces a weird asymmetry. I buy the argument more that "status" here is not "this is a git-status config option", but "this config section encompasses various things about the status of a repository reported by many commands". But then it's kind of funny to have many of the existing options there that really are specific to git-status. In can be both of those things, of course, but then it becomes less clear to the user which config options affect which command. I dunno. It is probably not _that_ big a deal, and I can live with it wherever. But Git has a reputation for having inconsistencies and weird asymmetries in its UI, so I like to give some thought to squashing them preemptively. -Peff
