From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
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: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:42:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zin7Q6Xdg7WOBNaY@tanuki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfrva3k9j.fsf@gitster.g>
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 07:31:04AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
>
> >> Do not close that communication channel on us.
> >
> > While I agree that it might not be a good idea to set it for our users,
> > the usecase mentioned by this patch series is scripting. And here I very
> > much agree with the sentiment that it makes sense to give an easy knob
> > to disable all advice (disclosure: James is part of the Gitaly team at
> > GitLab, and that is where this feature comes from, so I am very much
> > biased).
>
> Of course, as you mention, the kosher way is to use the plumbing
> where there is no advice messages. If certain functionalitly is
> lacking in the set of plumbing commands, adding them would benefit
> everybody, not just Gitaly.
>
> If this is for scripting, make it easy for scripts to use while
> making it very very hard for users to trigger in their interactive
> environments. A configuration variable, by design, is a very bad
> choice to do so, as it is "set it once and forget about it", which
> defeats the whole purpose of advice messages. An environment
> variable is very much in the same category in that you can set it in
> ~/.login or ~/.profile and forget about it.
>
> A "git" wide command line option, similar to "--no-pager" or
> "--literal-pathspecs", is probably an acceptable avenue.
Fair enough. So adding a global config like `--no-advice` it is.
Patrick
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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 [this message]
2024-04-24 7:37 ` Dragan Simic
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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