"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2020-05-15 at 15:57:06, Laurent Arnoud wrote: >> The `diff.relative` boolean option set to `true` to show only changes on the >> current directory and show relative pathnames. > > Usually when we implement configuration settings like this, we implement > an option value, such as --no-relative, so that users or scripting tools > can disable this feature if they need to. However, I don't see that in > this series. Would adding such a feature be possible? I think I saw a variant that does have --[no-]foobar support on the list, but I may be hallucinating. You definitely would want it, or you've broken "format-patch" forever without a knob to countermand the configuration (well, you can still say "git -c diff.foobar=no" but that's kind of cheating).
