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Re: [PATCH] advice: Add advice.scissors to suppress "do not modify or remove this line"

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Apr 16, 2024, 20:35 UTC
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Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes:
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> On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 08:21:54PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> The scissors line before the diff in a verbose commit, or above all the
>> comments when using --cleanup=scissors, has the following two lines of
>> explanation after it:
>> 
>> Do not modify or remove the line above.
>> Everything below it will be ignored.
>> 
>> This is useful advice for new users, but potentially redundant for
>> experienced users, who might instead appreciate seeing two more lines of
>> information in their editor.
>> 
>> Add advice.scissors to suppress that explanation.
>
> Following up on this patch. Happy to rework if needed.

I am not personally interested in the feature myself, and I doubt it would help the end-user experience very much. You'd need to find somebody else to cheer for the topic ;-)

Thanks.
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  1. advice: Add advice.scissors to suppress "do not modify or remove this line"Josh Triplett, Feb 26, 2024
  2. Josh TriplettApr 16, 2024
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2024
  4. rsbecker@nexbridge.comApr 16, 2024
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2024
  6. rsbecker@nexbridge.comApr 16, 2024
  7. Dragan SimicApr 17, 2024
  8. Rubén JustoApr 16, 2024

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