From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:48:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 7/7] meson/Makefile: allow setting submodule encoding at build time
Message-ID: <xmqq4iq3pndu.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <aTQbbFisaCG8N_Z_@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

>> How would that lead to build-time behaviour change, though?
>> 
>> Users in managed environments like $CORP can rely on /etc/gitconfig
>> or equivalents managed by their corp-eng, so I am having a hard time
>> imagining why we need anything more than an configuration variable
>> looked at runtime.
>
> I guess you could kind of have both: make it a runtime configuration
> key, but have its default depend on a build configuration. You could for
> example auto-enable it in case `WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES` is enabled. But I
> myself am not sure whether the latter would really be all that important
> in the first place.

Me neither ;-)