* Git tedious verbosity [not found] <CAF8BazCScMN1sBspcCycOJBcepbkKfJUvh_hL9MSgNVvs4jKGQ@mail.gmail.com> @ 2020-02-10 18:49 ` Aleksey Midenkov 2020-02-13 14:03 ` Verbosity of git checkout (was Re: Git tedious verbosity) Leah Neukirchen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Aleksey Midenkov @ 2020-02-10 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Git Mailing List Can you please disable all these meaningless messages which become more and more plentiful with each new version, like: Updated 1 path from the index And all these repeated tips with lots of text on git push/pull which are only first-time useful but nag people for years. -- All the best, Aleksey Midenkov @midenok ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Verbosity of git checkout (was Re: Git tedious verbosity) 2020-02-10 18:49 ` Git tedious verbosity Aleksey Midenkov @ 2020-02-13 14:03 ` Leah Neukirchen 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Leah Neukirchen @ 2020-02-13 14:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: git Aleksey Midenkov <midenok@gmail.com> writes: > Can you please disable all these meaningless messages which become > more and more plentiful with each new version, like: > > Updated 1 path from the index Actually, I want *this* message to be more verbose, but I don't think that's implemented. Could "git checkout" get a flag to print the files being overwritten, instead of only a count? Best, -- Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> https://leahneukirchen.org/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Git tedious verbosity
@ 2020-02-10 21:00 Abhishek Kumar
2020-02-11 14:19 ` Aleksey Midenkov
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Abhishek Kumar @ 2020-02-10 21:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: midenok; +Cc: git
Greetings Aleksey
You can look into using `--short` and `--porcelain` flags.
> Git offered enabling/disabling advice by using the 'advice.*' key in the configuration.
Read up on this StackOverflow question on "How to turn off the help
hints in git output?" [1]. These should do the trick, but feel free to
elaborate if you need something more specific.
Regards
Abhishek
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/55463863
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread* Re: Git tedious verbosity 2020-02-10 21:00 Git tedious verbosity Abhishek Kumar @ 2020-02-11 14:19 ` Aleksey Midenkov 2020-02-11 19:08 ` Andrew Clayton 2020-02-11 19:55 ` Jeff King 0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Aleksey Midenkov @ 2020-02-11 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Abhishek Kumar; +Cc: Git Mailing List Hi Abhishek! Nice info, thanks. Does that disable maintenance messages like: Updated 1 path from the index Or gc about garbage collection? Actually bad defaults is big problem developers undeservedly ignore. You can control everything but you have to switch hundreds of options, because software defaults are oriented on dumbest user. Let's overcome this bad tendency and satisfy smartest users, not the dumbest ones. Unix was always terse system which provided little to no output by default. Let's honor that good tradition and not submit to "Google-Got-It" virus. On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:01 AM Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings Aleksey > > You can look into using `--short` and `--porcelain` flags. > > > Git offered enabling/disabling advice by using the 'advice.*' key in the configuration. > > Read up on this StackOverflow question on "How to turn off the help > hints in git output?" [1]. These should do the trick, but feel free to > elaborate if you need something more specific. > > Regards > Abhishek > > [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/55463863 -- All the best, Aleksey Midenkov @midenok ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Git tedious verbosity 2020-02-11 14:19 ` Aleksey Midenkov @ 2020-02-11 19:08 ` Andrew Clayton 2020-02-11 19:55 ` Jeff King 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Andrew Clayton @ 2020-02-11 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Aleksey Midenkov; +Cc: Git Mailing List On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:19:53 +0300 Aleksey Midenkov <midenok@gmail.com> wrote: > Or gc about garbage collection? Actually bad defaults is big problem > developers undeservedly ignore. You can control everything but you > have to switch hundreds of options, because software defaults are > oriented on dumbest user. Let's overcome this bad tendency and satisfy > smartest users, not the dumbest ones. Unix was always terse system > which provided little to no output by default. Let's honor that good > tradition and not submit to "Google-Got-It" virus. I've been using Git for over ten years so hopefully I'm not the *dumbest* user, but I still appreciate the various tips and hints Git provides... Don't really see what the problem with them is and it seems you can quieten them if they really bother you that much... Andrew ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Git tedious verbosity 2020-02-11 14:19 ` Aleksey Midenkov 2020-02-11 19:08 ` Andrew Clayton @ 2020-02-11 19:55 ` Jeff King 2020-02-11 19:56 ` Jeff King 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Jeff King @ 2020-02-11 19:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Aleksey Midenkov; +Cc: Abhishek Kumar, Git Mailing List On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:19:53PM +0300, Aleksey Midenkov wrote: > Nice info, thanks. Does that disable maintenance messages like: > > Updated 1 path from the index I don't think it does. Usually how this works is that we add new messages which we think might be helpful, enable them by default (since users aren't likely to find out about them if they never see them!), and then if they turn out to be annoying or verbose, add an advice.* config option to allow people to avoid them. The message quoted above is a relatively new one, and I don't think it's hit that third step yet. Patches welcome. :) > Or gc about garbage collection? Actually bad defaults is big problem > developers undeservedly ignore. You can control everything but you > have to switch hundreds of options, because software defaults are > oriented on dumbest user. Let's overcome this bad tendency and satisfy > smartest users, not the dumbest ones. Unix was always terse system > which provided little to no output by default. Let's honor that good > tradition and not submit to "Google-Got-It" virus. The goal of the process above is to find a balance between experienced and inexperienced users. We try to be helpful to one, but provide options for the other to customize. -Peff ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Git tedious verbosity 2020-02-11 19:55 ` Jeff King @ 2020-02-11 19:56 ` Jeff King 2020-02-12 4:34 ` Sergey Organov 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Jeff King @ 2020-02-11 19:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Aleksey Midenkov; +Cc: Abhishek Kumar, Git Mailing List On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:55:49PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:19:53PM +0300, Aleksey Midenkov wrote: > > > Nice info, thanks. Does that disable maintenance messages like: > > > > Updated 1 path from the index > > I don't think it does. Usually how this works is that we add new > messages which we think might be helpful, enable them by default (since > users aren't likely to find out about them if they never see them!), and > then if they turn out to be annoying or verbose, add an advice.* config > option to allow people to avoid them. > > The message quoted above is a relatively new one, and I don't think it's > hit that third step yet. Patches welcome. :) Oh, and if you want to see the complete list, look for "advice.*" in "git help config". -Peff ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Git tedious verbosity 2020-02-11 19:56 ` Jeff King @ 2020-02-12 4:34 ` Sergey Organov 2020-02-12 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano 2020-02-12 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano 0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Sergey Organov @ 2020-02-12 4:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jeff King; +Cc: Aleksey Midenkov, Abhishek Kumar, Git Mailing List Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:55:49PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:19:53PM +0300, Aleksey Midenkov wrote: >> >> > Nice info, thanks. Does that disable maintenance messages like: >> > >> > Updated 1 path from the index >> >> I don't think it does. Usually how this works is that we add new >> messages which we think might be helpful, enable them by default (since >> users aren't likely to find out about them if they never see them!), and >> then if they turn out to be annoying or verbose, add an advice.* config >> option to allow people to avoid them. >> >> The message quoted above is a relatively new one, and I don't think it's >> hit that third step yet. Patches welcome. :) > > Oh, and if you want to see the complete list, look for "advice.*" in > "git help config". It says: All advice.* variables default to true, and you can tell Git that you do not need help by setting these to false: If there were an option to set that default to 'false' (advice.default maybe?), it'd have answered the demands of the experts, I think. -- Sergey ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Git tedious verbosity 2020-02-12 4:34 ` Sergey Organov @ 2020-02-12 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano 2020-02-13 4:45 ` Sergey Organov 2020-02-12 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Junio C Hamano @ 2020-02-12 17:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Sergey Organov Cc: Jeff King, Aleksey Midenkov, Abhishek Kumar, Git Mailing List Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes: > It says: > > All advice.* variables default to true, and you can tell Git that you > do not need help by setting these to false: > > If there were an option to set that default to 'false' (advice.default > maybe?), it'd have answered the demands of the experts, I think. > > -- Sergey This was recently discussed. A quick search in the list archive would have found this thread, for example: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqwoa122h1.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Git tedious verbosity 2020-02-12 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano @ 2020-02-13 4:45 ` Sergey Organov 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Sergey Organov @ 2020-02-13 4:45 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Jeff King, Aleksey Midenkov, Abhishek Kumar, Git Mailing List Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes: > Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes: > >> It says: >> >> All advice.* variables default to true, and you can tell Git that you >> do not need help by setting these to false: >> >> If there were an option to set that default to 'false' (advice.default >> maybe?), it'd have answered the demands of the experts, I think. >> >> -- Sergey > > This was recently discussed. A quick search in the list archive > would have found this thread, for example: > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqwoa122h1.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/ Thanks for pointing! Still ability to configure the default looks both simpler and more flexible to me. -- Sergey ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Git tedious verbosity 2020-02-12 4:34 ` Sergey Organov 2020-02-12 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano @ 2020-02-12 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano 2020-02-13 4:30 ` Sergey Organov 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Junio C Hamano @ 2020-02-12 17:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Sergey Organov Cc: Jeff King, Aleksey Midenkov, Abhishek Kumar, Git Mailing List Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes: > It says: > > All advice.* variables default to true, and you can tell Git that you > do not need help by setting these to false: > > If there were an option to set that default to 'false' (advice.default > maybe?), it'd have answered the demands of the experts, I think. Well, just like newbies won't stay to be newbies forever (and that is why you can disable advice.frotz once you learned about frotz), what you call "experts" won't stay to be experts, either. A new and backward incompatible way to work may be introduced and a new advice message to guide _everybody_ (including those who thought they were already experts) may have to be introduced, and turning off all advice.* variables, even the ones that you haven't seen, would hurt them. So... ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Git tedious verbosity 2020-02-12 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano @ 2020-02-13 4:30 ` Sergey Organov 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Sergey Organov @ 2020-02-13 4:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Jeff King, Aleksey Midenkov, Abhishek Kumar, Git Mailing List Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes: > Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes: > >> It says: >> >> All advice.* variables default to true, and you can tell Git that you >> do not need help by setting these to false: >> >> If there were an option to set that default to 'false' (advice.default >> maybe?), it'd have answered the demands of the experts, I think. > > Well, just like newbies won't stay to be newbies forever (and that > is why you can disable advice.frotz once you learned about frotz), > what you call "experts" won't stay to be experts, either. A new and > backward incompatible way to work may be introduced and a new advice > message to guide _everybody_ (including those who thought they were > already experts) may have to be introduced, and turning off all > advice.* variables, even the ones that you haven't seen, would hurt > them. By "experts" here, in the context of particular discussion, I meant Linux/UNIX experts who are used to tools being silent, unless verbosity is explicitly requested (typical --verbose,-v), or at least having a simple way to make them silent (typical --quiet,-q). >> So... So in fact this has little to do with git proficiency. -- Sergey ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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