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Re: [PATCH 1/2] advice: Document that they all default to true

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 19, 2011, 09:37 UTC
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On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 09:35:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> By definition, the default value of "advice.*" variables must be true and
> they all control various additional help messages that are designed to aid
> new users. Setting one to false is to tell Git that the user understands
> the nature of the error and does not need the additional verbose help
> message.
> 
> Also fix the asciidoc markup for linkgit:git-checkout[1] in the
> description of the detachedHead advice by removing an excess colon.
Makes sense.
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
-Peff
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