Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Dec 14, 2006, 23:52 UTC
Message-ID: <200612142352.kBENq8Ie002603@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <junkio@cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

[...]

> In general the principle ought to be not to say anything if the
> command does exactly what it was told to do successfully, unless
> the operation is expected to take longer than other normal
> commands in the git suite, or something that is rarely used.

Nodz. Just hoary Unix tradition.

> Perhaps under "[user] expert" control.

Nope. You'd be surprised what kind of people consider themselves "experts"... I'd prefer adding -v/--verbose flags to all commands (if nothing else, for symmetry's sake), have a '[default] --verbose' controlling this across the board (perhaps also '[default "command"] --verbose'), with '[default]' setting default switches.

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