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Re: Git tedious verbosity

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ACAndrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Date
Feb 11, 2020, 19:08 UTC
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:19:53 +0300 Aleksey Midenkov <midenok@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Or gc about garbage collection? Actually bad defaults is big problem
> developers undeservedly ignore. You can control everything but you
> have to switch hundreds of options, because software defaults are
> oriented on dumbest user. Let's overcome this bad tendency and satisfy
> smartest users, not the dumbest ones. Unix was always terse system
> which provided little to no output by default. Let's honor that good
> tradition and not submit to "Google-Got-It" virus.

I've been using Git for over ten years so hopefully I'm not the *dumbest* user, but I still appreciate the various tips and hints Git provides...

Don't really see what the problem with them is and it seems you can quieten them if they really bother you that much...

Andrew
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  1. Abhishek KumarFeb 10, 2020
  2. Aleksey MidenkovFeb 11, 2020
  3. Andrew ClaytonFeb 11, 2020
  4. Jeff KingFeb 11, 2020
  5. Jeff KingFeb 11, 2020
  6. Sergey OrganovFeb 12, 2020
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 12, 2020
  8. Sergey OrganovFeb 13, 2020
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 12, 2020
  10. Sergey OrganovFeb 13, 2020

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