Re: [PATCH RFC] Add a config verbose option fetch and push

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: May 22, 2010, 12:01 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimQzAM7qA32FRFvQC1cx7UEEKtBxjU89whrSqF5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201005221244.32213.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:44, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> That would completely ruin the scriptability of almost all commands.
> Imagine the user added the following options as default:
>
>  add --edit
>  checkout --patch
>  cherry-pick --no-commit
>  commit --amend
>  pull --rebase
>
> I'm sure you can find one option that changes the command in something
> completely different *for every command*.

Sure. But so would adding this as git-add to your $PATH:

    #!/bin/sh
    /usr/lib/git-core/git-add --edit $@

Git already has plenty of ways to shoot yourself in the foot. I don't see how it's worse if that's done through some generalized facility which results in less special-case code in individual tools.