Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:55:49PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:19:53PM +0300, Aleksey Midenkov wrote: >> >> > Nice info, thanks. Does that disable maintenance messages like: >> > >> > Updated 1 path from the index >> >> I don't think it does. Usually how this works is that we add new >> messages which we think might be helpful, enable them by default (since >> users aren't likely to find out about them if they never see them!), and >> then if they turn out to be annoying or verbose, add an advice.* config >> option to allow people to avoid them. >> >> The message quoted above is a relatively new one, and I don't think it's >> hit that third step yet. Patches welcome. :) > > Oh, and if you want to see the complete list, look for "advice.*" in > "git help config". It says: All advice.* variables default to true, and you can tell Git that you do not need help by setting these to false: If there were an option to set that default to 'false' (advice.default maybe?), it'd have answered the demands of the experts, I think. -- Sergey
