From: Mehul Jain <mehul.jain2029@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:04:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] log: "--no-show-signature" commmand-line option
Message-ID: <CA+DCAeRUObYLy1cP-i-iVoWnw8SEaMJZEWu20q0M2eVJZ3uMJg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq37oqxib8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Mehul Jain <mehul.jain2029@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If "log.showSignature=true", then there is no way to override it using
>> command line switch.
>>
>> Teach git-log and related commands about "--no-showSignature" command
>> line option.
>
> Doesn't that suggest that 1/2 alone will cause users problems?  The
> users can by mistake set the configuration variable and there is no
> way for them to override it from the command line.
>
> If you swap the order of the two patches, the topic makes more
> sense.  I.e.
>
>     [1/2] log: add "--no-show-signature" command line option
>
> makes "git log --show-signature --no-show-signature" to run without
> GPG checks, which by itself is a worthy change.  And then
>
>     [2/2] log: add log.showSignature configuration variable
>
> makes revs->show_signature default to the configured value, instead
> of always initializing it to false.

Yes, it does make sense to swap the order of the patches.
I will do a re-roll soon.

Thanks,
Mehul