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Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: add help_unknown_ref

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
May 1, 2013, 14:06 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> You say advice, but you're not invoking advise() or guarding the
> advice with an advice.* -- the advice is undoubtedly helpful, but not
> everyone wants to see it.

Quite franckly, I don't see why anybody would need to disable it. advice.* is very nice to disable messages that are shown in normal Git usage (e.g. running "git status" or attempting a non-fast forward push), but this is clearly a user-error, that an advanced user is not supposed to see anyway.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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  1. 0/2 Better advice on mergeVikrant Varma, May 1, 2013
  2. 1/2 help: add help_unknown_refVikrant Varma, May 1, 2013
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 1, 2013
  4. Matthieu MoyMay 1, 2013
  5. Vikrant VarmaMay 1, 2013
  6. Johannes SixtMay 1, 2013
  7. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 1, 2013
  8. Vikrant VarmaMay 1, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2013
  11. Vikrant VarmaMay 1, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2013
  13. 2/2 merge: use help_unknown_ref instead of dieVikrant Varma, May 1, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2013
  15. Jonathan NiederMay 1, 2013
  16. Vikrant VarmaMay 1, 2013

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