From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 05:51:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace --edit: respect core.editor
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD189+AcLstEx4s_2ZYWp6UOtDb=vWGYhCpJayM8ma5hxw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160420035353.GA31890@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 09:22:37AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I can understand "we only know edit mode needs config, and we know
>> it will never affect other modes to have the new call here", and it
>> would be good for an emergency patch for ancient maintenance track
>> that will not get any other changes or enhancements.  I do not think
>> it is a sound reasoning to maintain the codefor the longer term,
>> though.
>
> Yeah. I agree the patch here is not wrong, but I would prefer to just
> have git-replace load the config when it starts. It's _possible_ that
> something might break or misbehave, but IMHO any program which breaks
> when git_default_config() is run is probably in need of fixing.

I agree.

> And I cannot recall any reason we did not read config when "--edit"
> was added; we just didn't think of it.

Yeah I think so.

Thanks,
Christian.