From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 21:05:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] config: add '--sources' option to print the source of a config value
Message-ID: <xmqqegcgs4lq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160213181901.GC9516@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I'm actually opposed to "--verbose" because it is too vague. That is
> fine for a human, but this is also an interface that we expect scripts
> to parse, and which we therefore cannot later change without breaking
> them. I am not prepared to set "--verbose" in stone as showing the
> source file and nothing else, for all time.

Me neither.  Thanks for clearly spelling out why using --verbose for
this is not such a good idea.