Re: [PATCH] push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek [off-list ref] writes:

I think that having three different config keys for the three
different advices makes sense, because the advices will be displayed
at different times.

I don't think it really makes sense to be such fine-grained. We already
have 6 different advices, so an advance user who do not want them need
to set these 6 variables. I think we want to keep this number relatively
low.

The advice messages do not point explicitely to the way to disable them,
so users who know how to set advice.* are users who know a little about
configuration files, and who read the docs. Instead of having too
fine-grained configuration variables, we can have a better doc,
explaining shortly the 3 possible cases under advice.nonfastforward in
config.txt. The user who disable the advice can read the doc (I usually
think that "users don't read documentation" is a better assumption, but
since the user knows about the name of the variable, it is OK here).

Also, if I read correctly the patch, the old variable is left in the doc
and in advice.{c,h}, but is no longer used. This means old-timers who
have set it will see the message poping-up again after they upgrade,
which I think is inconveinient for them.

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Matthieu Moy
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