Re: [PATCH 3/4] push: make non-fast-forward help message configurable

From
Mike Hommey <hidden>
Date
2016-06-15 22:47:22
Reply to
Nanako Shiraishi, 2016-06-15
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:44:57AM +0900, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:
Quoting Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]
quoted
Speaking of which, has anybody felt annoyed by this message?

    $ git reset --hard HEAD^^
    HEAD is now at 3fb9d58 Do not scramble password read from .cvspass

This is not "maybe you should try this", but I would consider that it
falls into the same "I see you are trying to be helpful, but I know what I
am doing, and you are stealing screen real estate from me without helping
me at all, thank you very much" category.
You may be fixated at the sha1 part of the message when you find this message annoying, but I disagree strongly. I always appreciate the assurance this message gives me that I counted the number of commits correctly, whether I say HEAD^^^^ or HEAD~7.

Showing the subject of the commit you are now at is very useful and I will be equally irritated as you do if it starts showing the subject of the commit I was at.
I'd say both are equally interesting information.

Mike
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