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

On 09/07/2009 01:54 AM, Jeff King wrote:

At that point, why not just get rid of "message.all" and simply say
"manually turn off the messages you don't like". Then the user can
either go through the config manually as above, or they can wait until
they become annoyed with a particular message and turn it off (and
hopefully our naming is good enough that they can easily figure out
which one it was :) ).

So I think "be verbose, but let the user quiet us" is probably
better than "be quiet, but let the user make us louder", because it is
easier to discover verbose things. Which implies to me that
"message.all", if it exists at all, should be limited in scope to just
advice.

That seems like the most sane solution, given that it may not be obvious 
to the user what messages he/she may be missing if "expert" mode is on, 
and also from a coding perspective.

I know that by default I'd like to see new messages, and in case I'm 
doing something adventurous I'd like to see a message I may not have 
seen before. If I had turned off all messages because I got sick of 
seeing one or two in particular, then I'd never know.

Also, this thread started due to people's dislike of one particular 
message, so I think it's likely that in general someone would really 
only want to turn off at most a handful of messages, which again points 
to turning them off individually as being the best and simplest solution.

P.S. I never really introduced myself to the list... Uri Okrent here 
from L.A. Keep up the great work everyone!
-- 
    Uri

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