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Re: Enabling scissors by default?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 8, 2013, 22:42 UTC
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Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> writes:
> I was wondering why am's scissors option is not enabled by default.

It is very easy to miss misidentification of scissors line; as a dangerous, potentially information losing option, I do not think it should be on by default.

Another reason (and this is the original one) why it is not enabled is to discourage the contributors from overusing scissors -- >8 -- line. If you always have to write too much stuff before the proper explanation of your patch, so that the integrator has to use -c option all the time, you are explaining your patches wrong.

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