From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:21:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Enhancing --show-function and --function-context in default configurations
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In-Reply-To: <CAM1Tk15N6uK3aU5bY6mWQVX5UdEOraysrRmO+v4TA+P-Wa9_hQ@mail.gmail.com>

heapcrash heapcrash <heapcrash@gmail.com> writes:

> gauge whether these changes would be accepted or not.  As far as I can
> tell, these would not change the default behavior of plain git
> {grep,log,diff} unless the --show-function or --function-context flags
> are specified

Two other places may be diff hunk headers and --diff-words output, I think.

> Should I work on a patch that does this?

That depends.  If you are going to introduce a mechanism to
introduce hardcoded configurations, depending on how it is done, it
will become a huge security headache.