Re: [PATCH] merge-recursive: check GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY only once

> Despite not being in a threaded environment, I wonder if we want to
> minimize the time between  calling getenv and the use of the result,
> i.e. declare merge_verbosity here, but assign it later, just before the
> condition?
> 
> (The compiler may shuffle stuff around anyway, so this is a
> moot suggestion; It gears mostly towards making the code more
> readable/maintainable when presenting this part of the code
> to the user.)
> 
> With or without this change:
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>