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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>,
	Arjun Sreedharan <arjun024@gmail•com>,
	Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee•org>, Git <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce git root
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:30:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfvcvrtls.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141204211232.GC19953@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:12:32 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> ... I was thinking of
> just creating a new namespace, like:
>
>   git var exec-path
>   git var author-ident
>
> and deprecating the 4 existing GIT_* variables.

I'm fine with that.  As I wrote in my response to MMoy, I forgot
about other kinds of options the "git" potty takes, and "git var
name-without-needless-double-dashes" is a perfectly fine way to
consolidate the querying of computed values in a single place.

Thanks.

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-04 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-29 20:00 [PATCH] introduce git root Arjun Sreedharan
2014-11-29 23:08 ` Philip Oakley
2014-11-30  4:35   ` Arjun Sreedharan
2014-11-30 11:58     ` Matthieu Moy
2014-12-01  3:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-01  4:17         ` Christian Couder
2014-12-01  4:53           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02  7:04           ` Jeff King
2014-12-02 10:05             ` Christian Couder
2014-12-02 17:26             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-04  9:22               ` Jeff King
2014-12-04 19:02                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-04 20:00                   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-12-04 20:19                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-04 21:12                   ` Jeff King
2014-12-04 21:30                     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-12-05  2:27                     ` Christian Couder
2014-12-05  9:27                       ` Jeff King
2014-12-07  5:23                         ` Christian Couder
2014-12-09 18:17                         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-10  9:16                           ` Christian Couder
2014-12-10 20:10                           ` Jeff King
2014-12-10 21:08                             ` Junio C Hamano

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