From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:29:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added mergetool.kdiff3.doubledash config option
Message-ID: <20080614062904.GB12260@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcbwilps.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:17:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The reason I suggested either a cheap runtime check or command line
> override was because you can be accessing the same repository from two
> different machines, with different kdiff3.  If you check once and store
> the result in .gitconfig or .git/config, it would not help the situation a
> bit, would it?

Good point.  I'm not sure 0.5s is really fast enough to be considered
a "cheap runtime check", unfortunately.  At the very least it should
be cached across a single "git mergetool" invocation, though; maybe if
that were the case it would be acceptable.

          					- Ted