[Your message didn't go to the list, but I think it was supposed to, so I am re-adding the list]. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:16:57AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > > I wonder if people like Linus who do a lot of one-off pulls would find > > that too cluttery. I guess we can post a patch and see. ;) > > Maybe a 'newbie' configuration option could be added? > We can then, if that option is set, provide this kind of information > to the user. > Then, later on, when the user is more confident, they can unset the option. > I reckon it should be set to default-off but that we should provide an > easy way to turn it on. > (That is, 'git config newbie on', is easy enough, as long as it is > mentioned in a/the newbie guide) This has been discussed before, and I think the general consensus was that it's a bad idea to separate the "newbie" and "expert" experience too much. It makes it harder to provide advice and documentation that works for everyone. Now that argument generally applies to _behavior_ changes, not verbosity of messages. But in this case, I think it is easy enough to find a "right" behavior for everyone: show the message on fetch, which would otherwise be a very confusing command, but suppress it on "pull", where the fetching is mostly a side effect. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
