Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] checkout: introduce --{,no-}overlay option

> Thomas Gummerer wrote:
> > On 01/22, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> > As checkout is a porcelain command, I had hoped it would be okay to
> > also have this as a configuration option, for the time before
> > 'checkout-paths' exists and while I'm getting used to actually typing
> > 'checkout-paths' instead of 'checkout'.  However I get that there may
> > be scripts that are using git checkout, and expect the previous
> > behaviour, so I'm also okay with dropping the config option for now.
> 
> Yes, if we have no plan for flipping the default later, then I would
> prefer to eliminate the config option.  Scripts very frequently use
> human-facing commands like "git checkout" when they want the command
> to produce (unparsable) friendly output to show to humans, and I don't
> think we've provided a good alternative for that use case.

> > If we still want to make this the default even after 'checkout-paths'
> > exists, the plan you outline below sounds good to me, though maybe we
> > can make the "flip the default" step once we decide to release git
> > 3.0.
> 
> I would really like this, so I might write a series for it.  Please
> don't wait for me, though --- feel free to send any patches you're
> thinking about and we can work together or I can just appreciate your
> work. ;-)
> 
> Sincerely,
> Jonathan