From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:28:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo79z2s24.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240424035857.84583-1-james@jamesliu.io> (James Liu's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:58:55 +1000")
James Liu <james@jamesliu.io> writes:
> This patch series adds an "all" advice hint type that can be used as a
> convenience option for disabling all advice hints.
Hmph. I thought this was rejected already and not in so distant
past, but I am not finding a discussion thread in the archive.
The design to support the advice.* variables to let individual ones
to be squelched, without allowing "all", is very much deliberate.
A user may think they are familiar with all the advices already, but
with "all", they'll never get a chance to learn new ones added after
they set the configuration. Looking from the other direction, a new
advice message is a way for us to tell our users something important
for them to know. For example, we may plan to improve a high-level
Porcelain command so that it will eventually error out when given an
input that used to be accepted but behaved in a way that newbies
felt confusing. In the first step of such a transition, we will
introduce a new (and hopefully better) way to achieve what the user
wants to do, and add an advice message to tell the user, when they
trigger the codepath whose behaviour will change in the future, in
the old way that will eventually go away.
Do not close that communication channel on us.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-24 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-24 3:58 [PATCH 0/2] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints James Liu
2024-04-24 3:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] advice: allow advice type to be provided in tests James Liu
2024-04-24 5:28 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-24 3:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints James Liu
2024-04-24 5:29 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-24 6:28 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-04-24 6:48 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-24 13:52 ` Phillip Wood
2024-04-24 14:07 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-24 14:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-25 6:46 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-25 16:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-24 16:14 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-24 16:21 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-24 14:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-25 6:42 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-24 7:37 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 1:09 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] advice: add --no-advice global option James Liu
2024-04-29 1:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " James Liu
2024-04-29 4:15 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 5:01 ` James Liu
2024-04-29 5:36 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 5:59 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 6:04 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-29 6:12 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 6:40 ` Jeff King
2024-04-29 6:55 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 13:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-30 0:56 ` James Liu
2024-04-29 13:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-29 17:05 ` Rubén Justo
2024-04-29 17:54 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-30 1:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] " James Liu
2024-04-30 1:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] " James Liu
2024-04-30 5:18 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-30 6:24 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-30 16:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 7:17 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints James Liu
2024-05-03 7:17 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] doc: clean up usage documentation for --no-* opts James Liu
2024-05-03 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-06 1:39 ` James Liu
2024-05-03 7:17 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] doc: add spacing around paginate options James Liu
2024-05-03 14:32 ` Karthik Nayak
2024-05-03 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 7:17 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] advice: add --no-advice global option James Liu
2024-05-08 0:40 ` [PATCH v4 4/3] t0018: two small fixes Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 7:31 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints Dragan Simic
2024-05-03 18:00 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 19:26 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-05-03 19:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 20:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 21:24 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-05-05 11:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2024-05-06 16:40 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2024-05-07 0:11 ` Dragan Simic
2024-05-07 0:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-07 4:45 ` Dragan Simic
2024-05-07 0:01 ` Dragan Simic
2024-05-03 14:35 ` Karthik Nayak
2024-05-05 23:17 ` James Liu
2024-05-03 17:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-05 23:20 ` James Liu
2024-05-06 1:10 ` James Liu
2024-05-06 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-06 23:08 ` James Liu
2024-05-07 6:23 ` Karthik Nayak
2024-05-06 16:41 ` Junio C Hamano
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