From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:22:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add commit.infodisplay option to give message editor empty file
Message-ID: <20091206042206.GC23983@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091205230903.GA3816@thermopylae.local>

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:09:03PM -0500, James P. Howard, II wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:28:27AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > If the latter, I think we would be better served by an option to simply
> > turn off the template. Then that is also helpful for the case of people
> > using decent editors, but who don't want to waste the CPU time on
> > generating the template information (which can be substantial for things
> > like media repositories).
> 
> Actually, I find this a reasonable solution for both cases and would be
> willing to reimplment my change this way, as it meets my needs and would
> be useful to others.  The only question I have is, what should variable/
> command line option be called?

I would be tempted to call it "--no-template", but I think that is too
confusing. The "--template" option is not really about the git-generated
template, but about a user-defined template that goes on top of the
git-generated one (I would have expected --template=/dev/null to do what
you want, too, but it retains the git template).

Probably "--no-status" would be a good name, as the generated template
is the format generated by "git status".

-Peff