From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:15:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Introduce config variable "diff.primer"
Message-ID: <20090214061538.GB3223@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902140658050.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:03:26AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> >   1. an environment variable, GIT_PRIMER. E.g., "GIT_PRIMER=0 git diff".
> >      This strikes me as hack-ish and unfriendly, but would work.
> 
> FWIW I cannot stop to hate the term "primer" for this thing.

Yes, I also hate the name. I have been using it in the discussion for
lack of a better term, but I really dislike it, as well. I think
"diff.defaults" makes sense, but maybe something that suggests it is
about command line options would be better.

-Peff