From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:35:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] When a remote is added but not fetched, tell the user. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v4pa8rs00.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If the user tells you not to fetch, the command should not bother the user > with excess messages, unless the user explicitly asks to, either. I fully agree here, but is there a way for the user to do so? Especially the beginning user? Perhaps in the form of a -v(erbose) switch, but for that to be useful it would have to be present across most/all commands and have the same (type of) result. That is, it should provide the user with additional information on what they did wrong/what they likely want to do from here. In this case though I agree that, as Teemu pointed out, 'git remote add' is a config tool. 'man git remote add' points this out more than clearly enough for regular use. Maybe keep it in mind for the to-be "git mind reading" functionality. Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier