On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Yeah, whatever, I didn't take the time to think it through. But this may be an >> opportunity to give some life back to the zombie that git-var currently is, >> that is, to make it the plumbing that does value discovery for variables like >> GIT_AUTHOR_INDENT, GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, GIT_EDITOR, and perhaps also >> GIT_PAGER. > > Hmm, wouldn't it make even more sense to "run" them for the calling > Porcelain script? That was what I had been thinking. That way the caller doesn't need to know whether it may be a space-containing absolute path or an executable with flags, as long as git knows what to do. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html