Re: Git tedious verbosity

> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It says:
>>
>>    All advice.* variables default to true, and you can tell Git that you
>>    do not need help by setting these to false:
>>
>> If there were an option to set that default to 'false' (advice.default
>> maybe?), it'd have answered the demands of the experts, I think.
>
> Well, just like newbies won't stay to be newbies forever (and that
> is why you can disable advice.frotz once you learned about frotz),
> what you call "experts" won't stay to be experts, either.  A new and
> backward incompatible way to work may be introduced and a new advice
> message to guide _everybody_ (including those who thought they were
> already experts) may have to be introduced, and turning off all
> advice.* variables, even the ones that you haven't seen, would hurt
> them.