Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] range-diff: add configurable memory limit for cost matrix

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am not a huge fan of configuration variables that do not have a
>> command line option.  Assuming that it is not like you'd be doing
>> overly huge range-diff that would not fit your memory every day,
>> shouldn't we start this with a command line option without a
>> configuration variable to gauge how useful it would be for users
>> with such a need, and then after it proves useful and we identify a
>> workflow where a user would be passing this option all the time, add
>> a configuration to allow it always be in effect (with command line
>> override still available)?
>
> Isn't that what Paulo's patch does?  Maybe I'm just blind, but I've
> looked over the patch a couple times and don't see where he's reading
> from a configuration variable; am I just missing it?