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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... I was thinking of
> just creating a new namespace, like:
>
>   git var exec-path
>   git var author-ident
>
> and deprecating the 4 existing GIT_* variables.

I'm fine with that.  As I wrote in my response to MMoy, I forgot
about other kinds of options the "git" potty takes, and "git var
name-without-needless-double-dashes" is a perfectly fine way to
consolidate the querying of computed values in a single place.

Thanks.