From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:16:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add grep.fullName config variable
Message-ID: <mvmy507stf1.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7g7sbh56.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> This configuration variable sets the default for the --full-name option.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
>> ---
>
> Would this change break Porcelains (e.g. Emacs modes) and force them
> to be updated to explicitly pass --no-full-name to unbreak them?

Yes, that would be required.  On the other hand, currently it is
impossible to cut-n-paste a file name without --full-name, since the
pager is always started in top-level.  Perhaps it is better to fix the
latter?

Andreas.

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