Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] commit: print advice when core.commentString=auto

From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 27, 2025, 08:19 UTC
Message-ID: <aK6_ivfXr7jIbBCz@ugly.lan>
In-Reply-To: <af0c22b9-5034-4bbd-9cdd-f1f16d933e4d@gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 02:33:10PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:

>Some of git's reputation for being hard to use is well earned and I 
>don't want to add to that.
>

i would find that reasoning compelling if we weren't talking about a case that is likely to affect only very few, and probably rather advanced users (who somehow managed to make the feature actually useful for them - others would have quickly reverted the setting, because it would have gotten into their way).

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