Re: [PATCH] advice: refactor advise API

[Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:46 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
> As I outlined in [1], I think the over-simplified
> "advise_ng(<advise.key>, _(<message>), ...)"  would be too limited
> to replace the current users, without a pair of helper functions,
> one to just check for the guarding advise.key, and the other to
> unconditionally show the message (i.e. the latter is what the
> current advise() is).
>

I agree with adding the first helper, specially after Peff's comments,
but I don't see why we would keep the current advise() which
unconditionally shows the message...
As far as I understand from a previous discussion [3], that's a wrong
usage that we need to avoid, quoting from [3]:
```
If there are many other places that calls to advise() are made
without getting guarded by the toggles defined in advice.c, we
should fix them, I think.
```

> >     [1]
> >     https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqzhf5cw69.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
[3] https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqpng1eisc.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/