From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:50:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] git-diff.txt: fix ordering of the [--no-index] form
Message-ID: <20130424205046.GK29963@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0=-Bu-x=zg2f-uY7qUkwCp_8AdDAVv6=k0oyV4xYvBuWQ@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> I completely disagree, but we don't have to agree: make it a
> configuration variable.

I thought we had discussed before how every configuration variable
costs quite a lot in terms of Git's teachability.

What would that configuration variable even mean?  "Set this to make
other people's scripts work when they assume --no-index won't be
triggered automatically"?