From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:12:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git checkout --nodwim
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910262111340.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <117f2cc80910240759oa9f57e7h67f06816d37e328c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, David Roundy wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> My take on it:
> >>
> >> 1) --no-porcelain
> >>
> >> 2) we all are bike-shedding, not being constructive at all
> >
> > You are right about (2), regarding the option name. I've queued one that
> > uses --no-guess.
> 
> Perhaps a universal --plumbing flag would be handy?

No.  Older Git versions do not know about it, so you cannot Just Modify 
Your Scripts.  So the benefit of --plumbing is dubitable.

FWIW the same goes for --no-porcelain.

Ciao,
Dscho