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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: "David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added -d and -e options to the "git" script.
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:42:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <432ECE5A.7040703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u5tvf0xb0fp.fsf@lysator.liu.se>

David Kågedal wrote:
> A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>David Kågedal wrote:
>>>These flags override the GIT_DIR and EDITOR environment variables.
>>>
>>[Patch snipped]
>>
[...]
> 
> So please disregard the -e part of my patch for now.  You are free to
> disregard the -d part as well, but I think that makes some kind of
> sense.
> 
> And If we go down this path, maybe flags for other GIT_* environment
> variables should be settable with git command line flags too?
> 

Please no!

There are better methods of setting environment variables than an 
endless set of command options. Use the env command or you own 
(personal) command wrapper instead.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-19 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-18 18:18 Add "--git-dir" flag to git-rev-parse Linus Torvalds
2005-09-19 10:19 ` [PATCH] Added -d and -e options to the "git" script David Kågedal
2005-09-19 14:14   ` A Large Angry SCM
2005-09-19 14:24     ` David Kågedal
2005-09-19 14:42       ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
2005-09-19 15:08         ` David Kågedal
2005-09-19 14:42   ` Matthias Urlichs

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