From: Matthieu Moy Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:50:58 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 3/3] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of # Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130828231326.GA4110@google.com> Jonathan Nieder writes: > Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> In the long run, if users >> like the non-prefix output, it may make sense to flip the default value >> to true. > > Hmm, do you mean that the configuration is to give the change-averse > some time to get used to the new output? I think it would make sense > to do it all at once (and even think that that would be less > confusing). The actual reason was that I initially thought the change would be much more controversial. I wanted to live with the option on for some time to see how much I liked it, and allow others to do the same without forcing the change. If everybody agree that status it better without the comment, and that the switch does not need a config option, then I'm fine with dropping the config option. We can also keep the config option, but document it as a transitional option only ("the behavior changed in Git XXX, to keep the old behavior, set this to YYY"). Then it could be status.oldStyle instead. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/