From: Dragan Simic Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:19:18 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce -t, --table for status/add commands Message-ID: <2d392c7a7a00bd2c66efb17a2dbc86d7@manjaro.org> In-Reply-To: On 2023-10-23 23:14, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:51:31PM +0200, Dragan Simic wrote: >> The hint should be about how to turn the tables and verbosity on, not >> how to get rid of it. > > but that's just backwards. a noob shouldn't be bothered with putting > the tool into noob-friendly mode, neither actually nor "just" > psychologically. switching to "expert" mode should be the conscious > effort. and making it opt-in wouldn't even save the experts any > annoyance, as they need to opt out from the hint anyway. Let's focus on non-noobs as well, which could go nuts by having some strange tables displayed after updating git. For the beginners, having something configured is already inevitable, e.g. their credentials, so they could also turn on the tables if they wanted so.