Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config value

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 17, 2016, 16:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmvqzjnpm.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <DC5B6F35-CBB5-4DC4-A875-275BF072AD91@gmail.com>

Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:

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>> There is no need for this patch series to address this anomaly; it's
>> perhaps low-hanging fruit for someone wanting to join the project. The
>> only very minor wrinkle is that we'd still need to recognize --null as
>> a deprecated (and undocumented) alias for --nul.
>
> Does the list have a place to document these ideas for newbies to be found?

I do not know of one offhand, but if somebody (or like-minded group of people) starts to collect one, I am sure it would be very much appreciated.

A search for "low hanging fruit" and "hint hint" in the list archive used to work well as a first-order approximation; using these keywords takes conscious effort on those who write them, though ;-).