On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:42:47AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The short of it is that we probably can't just disable the warning for > > everybody because of portability issues. And ignoring it for developers > > puts us in the situation we're in now, where non-dev builds are annoyed. > > "git blame" unfortunately is very bad at poing at a commit that > removed something, so I do not offhand know how much it would help > readers who later wonder "oh, I am sure we had thing to disable > format-zero-length warning, and I want to learn the reason why we > dropped it", but thanks for writing this down. I often turn to "git log -Sformat-zero" for this (and in fact that was very useful for the research I did yesterday). But of course you have to first _know_ about the warning and wonder "hey, didn't used ignore it?" for that to be useful. -Peff
