From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:40:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] Testing: provide tests requiring them with ellipses after SHA-1 values Message-ID: In-Reply-To: "Philip Oakley" writes: >> We do not know until this change is released to the wild, at which >> time we will hear noises about the lack of expected ellipses their >> (poorly written) scripts rely on and tell them to set the workaround >> environment variable. We may not hear from such people at all, in >> which case we may be able to remove it within a year or so, but it >> is too early to tell. > > I was wondering if there should be a small documentation change for > the env variable and states that it is a temporary measure for short > term compatibility. Though I'm not sure where the 'right' place would > be for it. We list environment variables that applies git-wide in git(1), I think. If this is going to be only applicable for the "diff" family, Documentation/diff-format.txt may be a better place, and in that case the name of the environment variable may need to include a word DIFF somewhere.