Re: Missing git options

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Feb 6, 2018, 00:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20180206004313.GC7904@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <AD196D8E-04DB-4274-ADEB-D914A79628B3@schwarz-online.org>

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 10:12:05AM +0100, Martin Häcker wrote:

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> Hi there,
> 
> I just recently learned that not all command line switches seem to automatically correlate to options in the git configuration.
> 
> This seems something that should be relatively easy to fix.
> 
> What I’m most missing is
> 
> — snip —
> [log]
> 	graph = true
> 	patch = true
> — snap —
> 
> which would / should correspond to `git log —graph —patch`.
> 
> What do you guys think?

I think this is likely to cause problems. Many people use git log with --pretty to format commit hashes or messages into other programs. I'm aware of multiple tools that will simply break if --graph or --patch become the default. Requiring people to retrofit their tools to use --no-graph or --no-patch is likely to be a burden.

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