Variable: magit-verbose-messages

magit-verbose-messages is a customizable variable defined in magit-base.el.

Value

nil

Documentation

Whether to make certain prompts and messages more verbose.

Occasionally a user suggests that a certain prompt or message should be more verbose, but I would prefer to keep it as-is because I don't think that the fact that that one user did not understand the existing prompt/message means that a large number of users would have the same difficulty, and that making it more verbose would actually do a disservice to users who understand the shorter prompt well enough.

Going forward I will start offering both messages when I feel the suggested longer message is reasonable enough, and the value of this option decides which will be used. Note that changing the value of this option affects all such messages and that I do not intend to add an option per prompt.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in magit version 4.0.0.

Source Code

;; Defined in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-20260411.1452/magit-base.el
(defcustom magit-verbose-messages nil
  "Whether to make certain prompts and messages more verbose.

Occasionally a user suggests that a certain prompt or message
should be more verbose, but I would prefer to keep it as-is
because I don't think that the fact that that one user did not
understand the existing prompt/message means that a large number
of users would have the same difficulty, and that making it more
verbose would actually do a disservice to users who understand
the shorter prompt well enough.

Going forward I will start offering both messages when I feel the
suggested longer message is reasonable enough, and the value of
this option decides which will be used.  Note that changing the
value of this option affects all such messages and that I do not
intend to add an option per prompt."
  :package-version '(magit . "4.0.0")
  :group 'magit-miscellaneous
  :type 'boolean)