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[PATCH 3/5] environ: GIT_FLUSH should be made a usual Boolean

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 15, 2022, 16:06 UTC
Message-ID
<20220915160659.126441-4-gitster@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To
<20220915160659.126441-1-gitster@pobox.com>

This uses atoi() and checks if the result is not zero to decide what to do. Turning it into the usual Boolean environment variable to use git_env_bool() would not break those who have been using "set to 0, or set to non-zero, that can be parsed with atoi()" values, but will match the expectation of those who expected "true" to mean "yes".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git.txt | 1 +
 write-or-die.c        | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index e2f61a1ec8..3d31252bf2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -722,6 +722,7 @@ for further details.
 	waiting for someone with sufficient permissions to fix it.
 
 `GIT_FLUSH`::
+// NEEDSWORK: make it into a usual Boolean environment variable
 	If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such
 	as 'git blame' (in incremental mode), 'git rev-list', 'git log',
 	'git check-attr' and 'git check-ignore' will
diff --git a/write-or-die.c b/write-or-die.c
index c4fd91b5b4..aaa0318e82 100644
--- a/write-or-die.c
+++ b/write-or-die.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ void maybe_flush_or_die(FILE *f, const char *desc)
 
 	if (f == stdout) {
 		if (skip_stdout_flush < 0) {
+			/* NEEDSWORK: make this a normal Boolean */
 			cp = getenv("GIT_FLUSH");
 			if (cp)
 				skip_stdout_flush = (atoi(cp) == 0);
-- 
2.37.3-780-gd940517dcb
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