Re: [PATCH RFC] Add a config verbose option fetch and push
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:44, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > 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.
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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.chThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>