Re: [PATCH] doc: add --show-names for git config
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Aug 21, 2024, 16:02 UTC
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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
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> On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 09:04:50AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> As to the name, I tend to agree that --show-names is a strange name >> for the option, and I would have even suggest making "--all" to show >> the name by default and give "--hide-name" option to countermand it >> if we were adding this topic afresh today. But that unfortunately >> is all too late to change without much more effort than just changing >> the name. > > Mh. Yeah, that might've been the better default indeed. The new command > is still relatively young, but still, I don't know whether changing this > is in the picture now.
Yeah, it appeared only in the latest release, and may not be relied on yet.