Re: [PATCH] status: respect advice.statusHints for ahead/behind advice

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

So let's do a lot simpler patch instead.

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From: Jeff King <redacted>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 01:16:57 -0500

If the user has unset advice.statusHints, we already
suppress the "use git reset to..." hints in each stanza. The
new "use git push to publish..." hint is the same type of
hint. Let's respect statusHints for it, rather than making
the user set yet another advice flag.

You may want to squash this on top:

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From 87a438bd06dd689bd37949e762690ab5dbfc5ff8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Matthieu Moy <redacted>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 10:15:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] document that statusHints affects git checkout

---
 Documentation/config.txt | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e70216d..bf8f911 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt

@@ -160,9 +160,10 @@ advice.*::
                it resulted in a non-fast-forward error.
        statusHints::
                Show directions on how to proceed from the current
-               state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1] and in
+               state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in
                the template shown when writing commit messages in
-               linkgit:git-commit[1].
+               linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown
+               by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch.
        commitBeforeMerge::
                Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
                merge to avoid overwriting local changes.

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1.8.0.319.g8abfee4



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