On 2024-03-28 21:43, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Of course, users could pick the right escape sequences for their
terminals, but as you already noted, the same configurations could
end up being used on different terminals. For example, even SSHing
into a machine using a different SSH client could lead to a mess.
There is a separate discussion of conditional configuration based on
environment variable settings, e.g.
[includeIf "env:TERM:vt100"]
path = ~/.git-config-bits/vt100
where the named file might have
[prompt] prefix = "\033[H\033[J"
so it is certainly doable.
It is a different story if doing so is sensible, of course.
Quite frankly, I think that would be like opening a can of worms.
In other words, if we end up implementing support for the "add -P"
prefix, allowing the users to do whatever they want with the prefixes
would surely be fine, but only if we implement "add -P" at the same
time, to already provide a reliable and simple way for clearing the
screen.
