From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:03:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Introduce config variable "diff.primer"
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902140658050.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090213222233.GA7424@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote:

>   1. an environment variable, GIT_PRIMER. E.g., "GIT_PRIMER=0 git diff".
>      This strikes me as hack-ish and unfriendly, but would work.

FWIW I cannot stop to hate the term "primer" for this thing.

A "primer" has been explained to me as being a short leaflet that 
introduces you to the basic principles of something.  Or as a sequence of 
RNA (or in rare cases, not RNA but something similar) that starts 
replication of DNA.

IOW a primer is something that _has_ to come before something else.  
Without which the latter thing does not work.

Not a set of defaults, which this here patch is all about.

Ciao,
Dscho