On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote: > if somebody really wants to call a porcelain and _disable_ options, I don't > think "--no-primer" is necessarily the right interface. Instead, the actual > command line options given override what's in diff.primer, so you can > selectively disable whatever you like. Sir I appreciate the intention, as I interpret it, that it's always better to accomplish something without adding new vocabulary. I'd much rather avoid adding new vocab if possible. If I'm missing something, I apologize ahead of time, but let me describe the problem I see. Let's take the context size setting as an example, i.e. -U<n> or --unified=<n>. Default is 3. Let's say someone defines diff.primer = -U6. Now, without --no-primer, how does a program say "use the default value for context." Aren't there options for which no inverse counterpart exists? Is there command-line syntax to disable all whitespace ignore options, e.g. to disable -b? If not then we need --no-primer. -- 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
