From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:38:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] Introduce config variable "diff.primer"
Message-ID: <7v8woybut2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090126031820.GC14277@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So I think what you will end up with is a list in gitk of "these
> particular options are known good for passing through". And that doesn't
> really need tool support from git-core. It's up to each script how much
> it wants to protect the user.

I tend to agree.  Also at the same time this does not have to contradict
with what Keith wants to do.  gitk just needs to learn to peek into
diff.primer, and use the safe ones while discarding others.  A tool
support is already there in the form of git-config to do this, though.