Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Well, just like newbies won't stay to be newbies forever (and that is why you can disable advice.frotz once you learned about frotz), what you call "experts" won't stay to be experts, either. A new and backward incompatible way to work may be introduced and a new advice message to guide _everybody_ (including those who thought they were already experts) may have to be introduced, and turning off all advice.* variables, even the ones that you haven't seen, would hurt them. So...