Re: [PATCH 0/2] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints

James Liu <james@jamesliu.io> writes:

Hmph. I thought this was rejected already and not in so distant past, but I am not finding a discussion thread in the archive.

The design to support the advice.* variables to let individual ones to be squelched, without allowing "all", is very much deliberate.

A user may think they are familiar with all the advices already, but with "all", they'll never get a chance to learn new ones added after they set the configuration. Looking from the other direction, a new advice message is a way for us to tell our users something important for them to know. For example, we may plan to improve a high-level Porcelain command so that it will eventually error out when given an input that used to be accepted but behaved in a way that newbies felt confusing. In the first step of such a transition, we will introduce a new (and hopefully better) way to achieve what the user wants to do, and add an advice message to tell the user, when they trigger the codepath whose behaviour will change in the future, in the old way that will eventually go away.

Do not close that communication channel on us.

Thanks.