Re: [PATCH RFC] Add a config verbose option fetch and push

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:44, Thomas Rast [off-list ref] wrote:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
That would completely ruin the scriptability of almost all commands.
Imagine the user added the following options as default:

 add --edit
 checkout --patch
 cherry-pick --no-commit
 commit --amend
 pull --rebase

I'm sure you can find one option that changes the command in something
completely different *for every command*.

Sure. But so would adding this as git-add to your $PATH:

    #!/bin/sh
    /usr/lib/git-core/git-add --edit $@

Git already has plenty of ways to shoot yourself in the foot. I don't
see how it's worse if that's done through some generalized facility
which results in less special-case code in individual tools.