Re: [GIT PULL] binfmt_misc updates for 4.7+ merge window

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jul 27 2016 - 23:33:24 EST


On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'd actually prefer to make "--git" the default, if you are inside a
> git repository. Because obviously the *actual* default is too hard to
> understand ;)

I'd also like to make the "-f" optional.

I constantly forget it, and curse it. It should be trivial to see "the
argument is a file that is tracked in git, so it clearly isn't the
name of a patch".

Linus