From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 23:14:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] init: allow overriding the default branch name for new repositories
Message-ID: <xmqqwo4di49l.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <08e46af3-ff52-8bce-b75a-db8c390c9641@gmail.com>

Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com> writes:

> Why adding yet another environment variable instead of relying only on a
> config option?  I understand it's for the tests, but can't we add a
> shell function in test-lib.sh (and friends) that tries to read
> `GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_BRANCH_NAME', and, if it exists, sets
> `core.defaultBranchName'?

Can you produce such a patch that does it cleanly?  My knee jerk
reaction is that I would suspect that you end up having to touch
many places in the t/ scripts, but if you prove otherwise, that
would certainly be appreciated.

And no, 

    git () { command git -c core.defaultBranchName=master "$@" }

is not an acceptable solution.