Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes:
> As with EOIE, popular versions of Git do not support the new IEOT
> extension yet. When accessing a Git repository written by a more
> modern version of Git, they correctly ignore the unrecognized section,
> but in the process they loudly warn
>
> ignoring IEOT extension
>
> resulting in confusion for users.
Then removing the message is throwing it with bathwater. First
think about which part of the message is confusiong and then make it
less confusing.
How about
hint: ignoring an optional IEOT extension
to make it clear that it is totally harmless?
With that, we can add advise.unknownIndexExtension=false to turn all
of them off with a single switch.
