Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: >> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Are you shooting for customizability? >> >> Yes, and the ability to generate the message dynamically. > > Hmph, if that is the case, wouldn't it be a better direction to give > a better help for majority of the case where git-shell is used as > the login shell to allow push and fetch but not for interactive > access at all? > > The first step in that direction may be to give a better canned > message, followed by a mechanism (perhaps a hook) that lets a > message customized for the site's needs, no? The trouble is that I can't imagine a canned message that everyone will like. (For example, I quite dislike the current one.) That's exactly the situation in which some configurability is helpful. Some configurability is nice for other situations, anyway. For example, sites serving a multilingual audience may want the message to vary based on the user's language (or even source IP). The message can include a list of available repositories or extra information that changes over time. And so on. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
