Re: master 00149f18ea9: Support modifying VC change comments for Git

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Wed 23 Oct 2024 at 12:17pm +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> The values of the new option vc-allow-rewriting-published-history
> could have their mnemonic value improved (and also become more
> consistent with our practices elsewhere), if they were changed as
> follows:
>
>   nil (default): don't allow
>   ask: ask whether to allow
>   t: allow without asking
>
> The current values, where t means "ask for confirmation" and 'no-ask'
> allows without asking is IMO sub-optimal, because t usually means in
> Emacs "do something unconditionally".
>
> So I suggest to change the values as described above.

`ask' is nicer than `no-ask', indeed.  I am however keen to steer people
towards `ask'.  In addition to t often meaning "do something
conditionally", it often means "turn this on in the most common way"
even if the most common way is not the most permissive way.

I would be grateful for more opinions on how this option should look.
CCing Dmitry.

-- 
Sean Whitton