Re: [PATCH] i18n: make GETTEXT_POISON a runtime option

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 02:24:41AM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote:
>
>> >> Yeah, my thinko.  The latter would be closer to what this patch
>> >> wants to have, but obviously the former would be more flexible and
>> >> useful in wider context.  Both have the "Huh?" factor---what they
>> >> are doing has little to do with "config", but I did not think of a
>> >> better kitchen-sink (and our default kitchen-sink "rev-parse" is
>> >> even further than "config", I would think, for this one).
>> >
>> > Heh, I thought through the exact sequence in your paragraph when writing
>> > my other message. That's probably a good sign that we should probably
>> > not pursue this further unless we see the use case come up again a few
>> > more times (and if we do, then consider "config" the least-bad place to
>> > do it).
>>
>> I was thinking:
>>
>>   $ git var -e GIT_WHATEVER_ENV
>>
>> [-e for environment].
>>
>> ... but that is really no different than git-config. ;-)
>
> Actually, "git var" already does pull bits from the environment. It
> doesn't know about all of the type-specific parsing that git-config
> does, but it might be a reasonable path forward to teach it that. (But I
> still think we should do nothing for now and see how often this comes
> up).