From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config value Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:39:17 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1455531466-16617-1-git-send-email-larsxschneider@gmail.com> <1455531466-16617-4-git-send-email-larsxschneider@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Eric Sunshine , Git List , Jeff King , Sebastian Schuberth , Ramsay Jones , Heiko Voigt , Stefan Beller , Johannes Schindelin To: Lars Schneider X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 17 17:39:28 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aW58P-00066h-Ck for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:39:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423935AbcBQQjV (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:39:21 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:64658 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422903AbcBQQjU (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:39:20 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DCA3E487; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:39:19 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=sNrL8iAyjhSPl1QnntXNAgWZgSU=; b=CnfSf5 7Lt80djjgBJysNFnGgbXHOPZL1uyNMUO/CeuOJT6N6cE8lQA7Py5/CZSlppjqLZn pgH186ceHuM1mtaCHnU3HQsRYTwNx5aZdwnW9Dzm4m6X/QhW1snII2egT79VUTBT mFHcMeO+6M/P7/O86ttCAkep3gNt/6clKxgwo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=fyZnACiHXd4MgpJvW5JoHBbcAb6GXvkt HODAxzcqkk+IIXp3XrVNr5WrlKu9NivNHomtzmEOTj8PtnWDqUIgfckVZWDw6I4P yVov1nwk3BSP9RldIFNGScGsDsgLUP+J4tlxmaodBqWL4u89kJGRClnxmWzE/jhQ rBq80VFhg2w= Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D38C3E486; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:39:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.1.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F0AEB3E485; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:39:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lars Schneider's message of "Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:32:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: FD913472-D594-11E5-A816-79226BB36C07-77302942!pb-smtp0.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Lars Schneider writes: >> 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 ;-).