Re: [PATCH] whatchanged: customize diff-tree output

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Johannes Schindelin, Thu, Dec 22, 2005 12:16:00 +0100:
> > I'm certainly ok with the short format by default. And making it 
> > configurable per repo sounds fine, although at the same time I wonder if 
> > that perhaps confuses people more (something that works in one project one 
> > way works subtly differently in another project..)
> 
> I cannot think of a saner way to have an overridable policy. Just provide 
> a template config, and you're done. Everyone gets those flags per default, 
> and if someone does not like it: go ahead, change it yourself!
> 
> Besides, you are usually calling git-whatchanged in your private working 
> tree, where not many people can change the config.
> 

That's the point, isn't it? A script from ~user1/bin, which calls
git-whatchanged suddenly stops working in ~user2/repo.
Besides, how can user1 know what he has to specify to git-whatchanged
(I assume the command line overrides .git/config) so that his script
works everywhere?

Maybe such configuration better left to environment variables?