Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 7/7] meson/Makefile: allow setting submodule encoding at build time

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 13:19:18 +0100

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 11:10:30PM +0200, Adrian Ratiu wrote:
> Some users find it difficult to distribute repo config changes for
> enabling extensions.submoduleEncoding, or to enable it by passing
> the config via cmdline, so we add a build-time option which can
> enable the extension for convenience.

Wouldn't it be more sensible to make this a runtime configuration key
that users can configure in their gitconfig?

Patrick