Re: [PATCH 3/4] push: make non-fast-forward help message configurable

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

I hate to start off with a digression, but one expression from Japanese I have long been frustrated with, because I cannot find a good counterpart in English, is "大きなお世話".

J-E dictionaries often translate this phrase as "none of your business", and it indeed is meant to be thrown at somebody who gives an unsolicited and an unwanted advice to you, but at the same time it strongly implies that the reason why such an advice is unwanted is because you very well knows the issue and does not _need_ (not want) the help on the topic at all. It is not about _who_ gives the unwanted advice (which I think the expression "none of YOUR business" talks about---if the same advice came from somebody else, it might be appreciated), but it is all about on what topic the advice is about, and you feel that you know about the topic very well yourself and do not need any advice from anybody.

Enough digression.

I have always felt that many of the messages we have added since the "newbie friendliness" drive around 1.3.0 deserve to be labeled with the expression 大きなお世話.

Of course, "unsolicited-unneeded-advice.*" is too long as a variable name, but I personally would very much welcome changes along this line and I think "advice.*" is a good name for the category.