From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:08:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Alternate index output file
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704010904430.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4po04nit.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> If a curious user has the environment variable set to something
> other than the file GIT_INDEX_FILE points at, almost everything
> will break.  This should instead be a command line parameter to
> tell these plumbing commands to write the result in the named
> file, to prevent stupid mistakes.

I agree, that sounds sane. In general, we should probably support 
command-line parameters for most of those things, rather than force the 
use of environment parameters (the way we already do with "--author", for 
example).

		Linus