Re: [RFC] git-format-patch: default to --from to avoid spoofed mails?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 1, 2016, 18:59 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfuqojowp.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160801174316.4boo4slop77mtry4@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> I half-agree. Config that causes unpredictable behavior can break
> somebody else's script that you are running. If you say "oh, I guess I
> shouldn't set that config" and move on with your life, then the config
> hasn't really hurt anybody. If you complain to the script author that
> their script is broken, and insist that they pass the --no-foo option,
> then the script writer does not care much whether it was a config option
> or a change of default.

Hmph, I never considered that POV but you are right.

I am not sure if that argues that we have to be even more careful not to add non-essential configuration variable, or that we can afford to be much less careful when changing the default, though. A little bit of both, I guess.