Re: [PATCH v5 7/7] meson/Makefile: allow setting submodule encoding at build time

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Dec 5, 2025, 12:19 UTC
Message-ID: <aTLNxlKh02T_1PYB@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <20251119211030.2008441-8-adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 11:10:30PM +0200, Adrian Ratiu wrote:

> Some users find it difficult to distribute repo config changes for
> enabling extensions.submoduleEncoding, or to enable it by passing
> the config via cmdline, so we add a build-time option which can
> enable the extension for convenience.

Wouldn't it be more sensible to make this a runtime configuration key that users can configure in their gitconfig?

Patrick

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