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

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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

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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

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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 $@

Two points:

* This way is not documented in git-config(1), as the proposed
  interface would have to be; hence, it is not "official".

* More importantly, it doesn't work; for builtins such as git-add, not
  even if you put it under the `git --exec-path` (yes, I've tested
  this).

Git already has plenty of ways to shoot yourself in the foot.

Can't argue with that.

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Thomas Rast
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