From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:00:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mergetool: support absolute paths to tools by git config merge.<tool>path
Message-ID: <20071008220025.GZ31659@planck.djpig.de>
In-Reply-To: <11918785613855-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:22:40PM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> This commit adds a mechanism to provide absolute paths to the
> commands called by 'git mergetool'. A path can be specified
> in the configuation variable merge.<toolname>path.

Why not merge.<toolname>.path?
This would it make easy to introduce new variables of the form
merge.<toolname>.<var> later if needed. I also think it is more
consistent with names of existing configuration variables.
(think branch.<name>.<var> or remote.<name>.<var>)

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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