From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Karszniewicz <avoidr@posteo.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] log: add log.showStat configuration variable
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:14:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtuuzqv4o.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f53a7d8-6aa5-e1c7-ecb9-b99a37500034@gmail.com> (Derrick Stolee's message of "Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:50:35 -0400")
Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:
>> I worried about that, too. But I think the initial step was already in
>> 2015, when stash.showStat and stash.showPatch were added. No flood of
>> options happened since then? I was actually surprised about it, too,
>> that it took so long until someone wanted to have showStat for show and
>> log, too.
>
> I'm not sure these examples will help your case.
>
> Does 'stash' have more things that would be beneficial to show
> every time? If no, then 'stash' is much more specialized than
> 'show' and 'log' which have many more options. If yes, then this
> is exactly what we want to avoid happening: an incomplete set of
> config options that are tailored to a small subset of options.
Well said---I do not have anything more to add to that point that
'stash' is not a very good example to mimic.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-12 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 16:20 [RFC PATCH] log: add log.showStat configuration variable Robert Karszniewicz
2020-10-08 17:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-10 14:02 ` Robert Karszniewicz
2020-10-08 18:12 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-10-11 9:59 ` Robert Karszniewicz
2020-10-12 12:50 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-10-12 16:14 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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