Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] advice: introduce advice scoping mechanism

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 10, 2026, 19:54 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh5jwevbm.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20260910190345.GA903701@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I kind of wonder if _all_ advice should just say "--global". I cannot
> think of an advice flag that is really repo specific. They are about
> silencing extra help because the _user_ understands the situation and
> wants Git to be less chatty.

I think there are two things in play.

 * If applicability of a piece of advice depends on the workflow
   employed, and a user who works on multiple projects that use
   different workflows, set of advice messages may want to be
   squelched per project, hence "--global" may not be appropriate.

 * "I, a physical single person, understand this piece of advice" is
   inherently per user, so squelching a piece of advice that the
   physical single person understands globally may make sense very
   well.

In hindsight, the latter argument should have been given more weight, but I think the primary thinking back when we designed the customizable advice messages was instead the former.