Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/7] parse: create new library for parsing strings and env values

> I think it's reasonable to have the string value parsing logic in
> git-std-lib, e.g. this parsing snippet from diff.c seems like a good
> thing to put into a library that wants to accept user input:
>
>   static int parse_color_moved(const char *arg)
>   {
>     switch (git_parse_maybe_bool(arg)) {
>     case 0:
>       return COLOR_MOVED_NO;
>     case 1:
>       return COLOR_MOVED_DEFAULT;
>     default:
>       break;
>     }
>
>     if (!strcmp(arg, "no"))
>       return COLOR_MOVED_NO;
>     else if (!strcmp(arg, "plain"))
>       return COLOR_MOVED_PLAIN;
>     else if (!strcmp(arg, "blocks"))
>       return COLOR_MOVED_BLOCKS;
>     /* ... */
>   }
>
> But, I don't see a why a non-Git caller would want environment value
> parsing in git-std-lib.