From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 21:20:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] mergetools: add winmerge as a builtin tool
Message-ID: <CAHGBnuMt82oawQnoPGNiXefui6k5A3DW1ktGWvMy0m8iq78oPg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8ucjm0bo.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Yuck.  So even though %PROGRAMFILES% and %PROGRAMFILES(X86)% look as
> if they are variables that can point at arbitrary places, they in
> reality don't?  Otherwise %PROGRAMFILES% may point at D:\Program

Correct. In the vast majority of  WIndows installations these
variables contain the default values.

> But of course if I view this not as a "logic" but as a "heuristics"
> that happens to do the right thing in common environments, it is
> perfectly OK ;-).

Exactly a heuristic is what it's supposed to be :-)

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth