From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:22:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Renaming environment variables.
Message-ID: <7vzmv4udyx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050510001351.GH15712@pasky.ji.cz>

>>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:

PB> I think it would be nice to have something like GIT_BASEDIR,
PB> which would default to .git, and the objects directory would
PB> then default to $GIT_BASEDIR/objects and the index file
PB> would default to $GIT_BASEDIR/index.

Yes and no.  While I agree that having more things customizable
may be nicer than not having them, I do not see what GIT_BASEDIR
buys us.  That is, I cannot come up with a good use scenario
that would be helped by having that environment variable.

Except that you do not have to specify GIT_OBJECTS and
GIT_INDEX_FILE separately, that is.  Is it what you are aiming
for?