From: Thomas Rast Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:34:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Add a config verbose option fetch and push Message-ID: <201005221534.18529.trast@student.ethz.ch> In-Reply-To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:44, Thomas Rast 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 [...] > > 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. Can't argue with that. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch