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Re: Git tedious verbosity

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 11, 2020, 19:56 UTC
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<20200211195627.GF2127797@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:55:49PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
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> 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. :)

Oh, and if you want to see the complete list, look for "advice.*" in "git help config".

-Peff
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Message 5 of 10 in “Re: Git tedious verbosity”
  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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