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Re: Missing git options

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 6, 2018, 11:47 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Martin Häcker <mhaecker@schwarz-online.org> wrote:

> This however still freezes the default output of git forever.

Why is that a bad thing? Default output format should not change (much) from version to version, or from machine to machine (because of different ~/.gitconfig) for that matter. I don't want to type "git log" on somebody else's machine and have a big surprise. You _can_ customize output but that should be explicit.

If you want good defaults, that's what aliases are for. I personally rarely type "git log". I have "l", "lp", "l1" and other aliases for my everyday use.

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Duy
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