Re: [PATCH v4] builtin/remote.c: teach `-v` to list filters for promisor remotes

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 13, 2022, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk0ap9t4f.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20220513134946.1581-1-chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>

Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com> writes:

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> Else you can drop the idea and suggest them to introduce a new flag
> (depending on the situation). If you still have some doubt about my
> PR i.e. if you can not determine which category my PR belongs to, I
> can go with adding `show-partial-clone` flag. The downside would
> be that `remote -v` will not give the full summary in case of partial
> clone.

If majority of partial-clone users find it unnecessary noise, then it may be an upside to give only reduced summary that is less than full that may be given by `remote -v -v`.

Worse downside of adding it as an option is that it invites more options. It is less worse to add new ones to `remote -v -v` (or to `remote -v`, or not adding it at all) than adding another option, I would think.

Perhaps tagged output that can be easier to parse would be better "extensible" output format for adding more random pieces of information than going tabular. I dunno.