From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:30:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] difftool: add a skeleton for the upcoming builtin
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1611301330100.117539@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <20161129204915.lo45b2jz57dlfug5@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff,

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 09:36:55PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > So the suggestion by both you and Peff, to use an environment variable,
> > which is either global, or requires the user to set it manually per
> > session, is simply not a good idea at all.
> 
> No, my suggestion was to use config and have the test suite use an
> environment variable to test both cases (preferably automatically,
> without the user having to do anything).
> 
> I do not see how that fails to cover all of your use cases.

Oh, so the suggestion is to have *both* a config *and* an environment
variable. That is not elegant.

Ciao,
Dscho