Hi Junio, On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > TBH I expected some discussion along the line "Shouldn't this be an > > opt-in, with the initial default saying 'every branch except > > `master`'?", but that seems not to have taken place. > > I do not quite get it. Without any explicit configuration, every branch > except 'master' is shown, just like we've done for the past 15 years. > You can opt into hiding other names instead of 'master', hiding nothing, > or hiding everything. Sorry for being unclear. What I meant was: instead of a list of negative patterns, it might be more desirable to have a positive list of patterns, with the option to exclude some, much in the way `.gitignore` allows us to do. Something like this: [merge] mentionDestinationBranch = * mentionDestinationBranch = !master i.e. a list that specifies which branch names we _do_ want to mention in the merge commit's message, with possible exceptions. However, this might be overkill, and a bit more complicated to implement, as we now would also have to allow "negative" patterns. The most likely avenue to this would be to use the `exclude_list` machinery, which would be doubly confusing because we no longer would _exclude_ but _include_ a set of branch names. I am not sure that it makes sense to pursue this direction, but I wanted to at least mention it lest we bump into limitations later that cannot be fixed, by design. What do you think? Ciao, Dscho
