From: Jeff King Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 04:46:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] Make read_early_config() reusable Message-ID: <20170303044630.tfogzhzbokuoiwh6@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: <64135c6df520c1ca6a6e667855ac03c14d2dd153.1488506615.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 03:04:20AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > The pager configuration needs to be read early, possibly before > discovering any .git/ directory. > > Let's not hide this function in pager.c, but make it available to other > callers. > [...] > + * Note that this is a really dirty hack that does the wrong thing in > + * many cases. The crux of the problem is that we cannot run Makes sense. I'll assume the words "dirty hack" disappear from this now-public function as you fix it up in a future patch. :) -Peff