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

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 09:32:37AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > I think that since advice.* was originally assumed to be disabled
>> > globally (as Jeff mentions, he expected it to be set in the user
>> > config), adding "--global" to the hint is a good solution.  It makes
>> > the hint actually cut-and-paste ready while still matching the
>> > original intent.
>> 
>> The original intent was more like "the users are intelligent enough
>> to be able to decide which scope they want to use", I think.  I
>> agree that even with "--global" they can still cut-and-paste and
>> tweak if they wanted to, so I am OK with that move, but my point was
>> it probably is not even needed to mark each ones for which scope
>> they are suggested to be set (iow, we can just change the message to
>> always say "--global" without changing anything else).
>
> Yeah, I was hinting that I think suggesting --global for all advice
> would be fine. It's possible some particular advice would be better set
> within a repo, but I kind of doubt it. And if we do find one, I think it
> would be the exception, and then we could introduce a hint flag for that
> one bit of advice in the other direction. :)