Re: Git tedious verbosity

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 11, 2020, 19:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20200211195549.GE2127797@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAF8BazCpFyr_tpayWVtbk7V2LAtXaVmEKTCRQbgLYg4AvmvLvQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:19:53PM +0300, Aleksey Midenkov wrote:

> Nice info, thanks. Does that disable maintenance messages like:
> 
> Updated 1 path from the index

I don't think it does. Usually how this works is that we add new messages which we think might be helpful, enable them by default (since users aren't likely to find out about them if they never see them!), and then if they turn out to be annoying or verbose, add an advice.* config option to allow people to avoid them.

The message quoted above is a relatively new one, and I don't think it's hit that third step yet. Patches welcome. :)

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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.

The goal of the process above is to find a balance between experienced and inexperienced users. We try to be helpful to one, but provide options for the other to customize.

-Peff