Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. By "experts" here, in the context of particular discussion, I meant Linux/UNIX experts who are used to tools being silent, unless verbosity is explicitly requested (typical --verbose,-v), or at least having a simple way to make them silent (typical --quiet,-q). >> So... So in fact this has little to do with git proficiency. -- Sergey
