Re: [PATCH] Add `restore.defaultLocation` option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2023, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfsa9y7t5.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1467.git.git.1678578153640.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Hugo Sales via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Hugo Sales <hugo@hsal.es>
>
> This options allows control over which of `--worktree` or `--staged` is
> applied when `git restore` is invoked with neither

We do not want to do this. Tutorials and documents will be written assuming the official default, and those users who set it to use a different default, only because they are told to use it before they know better, would waste a lot of time wondering why the procedures they read from tutorials and documents would not work for them. Even an expert who is asked to help a novice, who has this variable set, would end up getting confused becaue "git restore" without the explict options does not work as they expect.

Individual users are welcome to use "[alias] ri = restore --staged" and this will hurt nobody.