Re: [PATCH] whatchanged: customize diff-tree output

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 22, 2005, 11:16 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0512221200190.7112@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512212245440.4827@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > How about doing something like this patch first, and then decide
> > what the default should be?

I see you already applied it, with a sane default. That's great!

> I'm certainly ok with the short format by default. And making it 
> configurable per repo sounds fine, although at the same time I wonder if 
> that perhaps confuses people more (something that works in one project one 
> way works subtly differently in another project..)

I cannot think of a saner way to have an overridable policy. Just provide a template config, and you're done. Everyone gets those flags per default, and if someone does not like it: go ahead, change it yourself!

Besides, you are usually calling git-whatchanged in your private working tree, where not many people can change the config.

Ciao, Dscho