From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:37:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6516b832041a1d5020f1297c17419279@manjaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo79z2s24.fsf@gitster.g>
On 2024-04-24 08:28, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> James Liu <james@jamesliu.io> writes:
>
>> This patch series adds an "all" advice hint type that can be used as a
>> convenience option for disabling all advice hints.
>
> 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.
I'd agree with Junio. Having "advice.all" is like a chainsaw, very
useful, but also quite dangerous if not used properly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-24 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-24 3:58 [PATCH 0/2] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints James Liu
2024-04-24 3:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] advice: allow advice type to be provided in tests James Liu
2024-04-24 5:28 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-24 3:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints James Liu
2024-04-24 5:29 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-24 6:28 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Junio C Hamano
2024-04-24 6:48 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-24 13:52 ` Phillip Wood
2024-04-24 14:07 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-24 14:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-25 6:46 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-25 16:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-24 16:14 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-24 16:21 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-24 14:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-25 6:42 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-24 7:37 ` Dragan Simic [this message]
2024-04-29 1:09 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] advice: add --no-advice global option James Liu
2024-04-29 1:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " James Liu
2024-04-29 4:15 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 5:01 ` James Liu
2024-04-29 5:36 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 5:59 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 6:04 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-29 6:12 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 6:40 ` Jeff King
2024-04-29 6:55 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-29 13:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-30 0:56 ` James Liu
2024-04-29 13:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-29 17:05 ` Rubén Justo
2024-04-29 17:54 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-30 1:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] " James Liu
2024-04-30 1:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] " James Liu
2024-04-30 5:18 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-30 6:24 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-30 16:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 7:17 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints James Liu
2024-05-03 7:17 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] doc: clean up usage documentation for --no-* opts James Liu
2024-05-03 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-06 1:39 ` James Liu
2024-05-03 7:17 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] doc: add spacing around paginate options James Liu
2024-05-03 14:32 ` Karthik Nayak
2024-05-03 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 7:17 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] advice: add --no-advice global option James Liu
2024-05-08 0:40 ` [PATCH v4 4/3] t0018: two small fixes Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 7:31 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] advice: add "all" option to disable all hints Dragan Simic
2024-05-03 18:00 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 19:26 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-05-03 19:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 20:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-03 21:24 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-05-05 11:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2024-05-06 16:40 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2024-05-07 0:11 ` Dragan Simic
2024-05-07 0:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-07 4:45 ` Dragan Simic
2024-05-07 0:01 ` Dragan Simic
2024-05-03 14:35 ` Karthik Nayak
2024-05-05 23:17 ` James Liu
2024-05-03 17:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-05 23:20 ` James Liu
2024-05-06 1:10 ` James Liu
2024-05-06 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-06 23:08 ` James Liu
2024-05-07 6:23 ` Karthik Nayak
2024-05-06 16:41 ` Junio C Hamano
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