From: David Roundy <roundyd@physics.oregonstate.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:21:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 2/2] Provide a build time default-editor setting
Message-ID: <117f2cc80910291921u6fc5e6e6j12c8433a67852ec0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfx916ea6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>
>> Yeah, whatever, I didn't take the time to think it through. But this may be an
>> opportunity to give some life back to the zombie that git-var currently is,
>> that is, to make it the plumbing that does value discovery for variables like
>> GIT_AUTHOR_INDENT, GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, GIT_EDITOR, and perhaps also
>> GIT_PAGER.
>
> Hmm, wouldn't it make even more sense to "run" them for the calling
> Porcelain script?

That was what I had been thinking.  That way the caller doesn't need
to know whether it may be a space-containing absolute path or an
executable with flags, as long as git knows what to do.

David