From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:24:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Introduce config variable "diff.primer"
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902140724360.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090214061538.GB3223@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:03:26AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, I also hate the name. I have been using it in the discussion for
> lack of a better term, but I really dislike it, as well. I think
> "diff.defaults" makes sense, but maybe something that suggests it is
> about command line options would be better.

Why not spell it out?  diff.defaultOptions

Ciao,
Dscho