From: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:03:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git mergetool, merge.tool, merge.guitool and DISPLAY
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On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 8:48 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I wonder if we can think of a new config knob as giving the default
> value for the --gui option that is a tristate <false, auto, true>.
> When the knob is not set, it default to 'false', which is the
> current behaviour.  The default most likely to be the most sensible
> would be 'auto' which is "see the environment to guess if use of GUI
> is appropriate".
>

I just submitted an RFC patch along those lines. I have a few
"niggles" I'd like feedback on, but in general I'm happy with it.