From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:26:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Rebase/cherry-picking idea
Message-ID: <7vy7ckgbpf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <474AC136.8060906@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Introduce an environment variable _GIT_CHERRY_PICK_HELP (note the
> leading underscore), which git-rebase sets; if it's set,
> git-cherry-pick uses that text instead of the usual one.

With precedences like GIT_REFLOG_ACTION and GITHEAD_${objectname}, I
think it would be consistent without the leading underscore.

I would not object to renaming all of them to have the leading
underscore, though.  That would make it clear that they are very
different from ordinary environment variables for the user to set
(e.g. GIT_INDEX_FILE, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME).  Does any third party tool like
qgit already use GITHEAD_${objectname} and/or GIT_REFLOG_ACTION?