From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:19:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce git root
Message-ID: <xmqqr3wfrwuu.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqegsfchi4.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>>> Christian raised the issue of cluttering the "git --option"
>>> namespace,
>>> and I do agree that's a potential issue. 
>>
>> I am not sure if that is an issue at all. You will need the same
>> number of options to cover all the necessary "computables" somewhere
>> anyway.
>>
>> "git --show-this-or-that-computable" is not more or not less
>> cluttering compared to "git var --show-this-or-that-computable".
>
> I disagree.
>
> Right now, a user reading "man git" sees --version, --help, -C,
> --exec-path, --html-path, --man-path, ... at a flat list (it's actually
> the first thing he can read from the man page).

Ahh, OK, you are worried about these "--give-me-computed-values"
mixed with other kinds of options.  I didn't consider that part of
the equation.

OK, "git var --exec-path" (and --friends), that is.