From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:42:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Enabling scissors by default?
Message-ID: <7vvcb7b8lc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <50EC92C6.7090509@ubuntu.com>

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.